I give up on Fedora 7 going back to FC6

Jeffrey Ross jeff at bubble.org
Sat Jun 9 11:51:20 UTC 2007



Paul Smith wrote:
> On 6/9/07, Jeffrey Ross <jeff at bubble.org> wrote:
>> I'm sorely disappointedly in this release, not sure where it went wrong
>> but...
>>
>> I'm going back to FC6, at least it was stable.  Fedora 7 locks up the
>> machine constantly.  Longest run time I've had with Fedora 7 was roughly
>> 23 hrs, shortest was about 15 minutes.
>>
>> FC6 ran for weeks on end and only got restarted because I downloaded a
>> new kernel it *NEVER* locked up the machine.
>>
>> Besides F7 locking the system up, I've had GNOME loose the desktop
>> (Panels?) where I had all the windows but the menu bars disappeared.  Or
>> I've had the menu freeze on GNOME where the application menu drops down
>> and then freezes, all the other windows that are up already continue to
>> work fine.
>>
>> I do plan on going back to Fedora 7, maybe wait a month or two maybe the
>> kernel issues will be straightened out.
>
> Yes, Jeff, F7 kernel is in fact buggy. However, you can install the
> last FC6 kernel on F7 and  it works. Here, I am running F7 with a FC6
> kernel.
>
> Paul
>

How do I install the kernel from FC6 on the F7 machine?




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