F8 -> F9 but keeping KDE3: technically feasible?

[Andrew Farris]

Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> Can I reasonably expect binary compatibility for F8 packages
> on F9? I hope gcc ABI didn't change drastically.

Honestly, I'm not sure how big an issue you will have with this.

> I think I will try my luck next days; in the worst scenario I will
> restore a full backup.
> But I'm sadly using the nvidia binary driver on this machine
> (Quadro FX 570M) and it looks like neither the binary nor the open
> source drivers are an easy path for F9. If I don't find a
> good solution for this, attempting the F9+KDE3 mess becomes
> less attractive.

You can use the nvidia drivers with F9 if you run the F8 xorg packages; quite a 
few people have been doing this with success throughout the F9 development.

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