Should I upgrade to Fedora 9 / KDE 4?

[Philip Ashmore]

Hi there.

People can only "look before you leap" if they are presented with enough 
information to make an informed choice.
 From my experience I wish I had known more.
1. The xorg update meant that the nvidia drivers couldn't simply have 
the portable part recompiled for each new kernel. This is what the Livna 
repo hosts.
2. On my install of KDE 4 (other problems may have caused this so please 
confirm) I have no Kate, no science screensaver, no ksysguard.
I filed a bug against ksysguard / KDE 4 - 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447471

I have no CD/DVD drive and no other machine.
After reformatting my hard disk twice, trying to copy the DVD image to a 
hard disk partition to boot off it and eventually using VMware server to 
boot off the ISO and install to a physical hard disk, I wish I hadn't 
started.

I've downgraded to Fedora 8 and was going to wait for the nvidia drivers 
to catch up, but now it looks like I'll be waiting for KDE 4.2.

Ho hum.