Appalling desktop performance in F8

[Michael A. Peters]

Robert F. Chapman wrote:
> I also have an older IBM Thinkpad, mine is a A21p with 384MB ram and
> runs just fine.  The only issue I have had is getting my older LeArtery
> Syncbyair wireless card to work.  It is a older Intersil PRISM I card
> and it looks like the orinoco_cs no longer supports PRISM I cards and
> only supports PRISM II and above.  This is a major bummer, as it worked
> great in FC6..
>
> Robert
I had wireless problems in F8 as well. I use an AT&T Plug&Share 6700G 
(802.11g) via MadWifi. The card was seen, but would only connect to open 
networks. Any other network, including networks it was already 
configured for from FC6 - NetworkManager would ask for the WAP key (or 
whatever) and ask if it could save it in my default keyring and then 
fail to work. Switched to CentOS - and all the networks I had already 
configured in my gnome-keyring all worked again no prompting for squat 
(other than to unlock it).

I suspect in a couple months, F8 will be a nice kick ass distribution. 
It's just not there yet.
Other "less than stellar" releases of Fedora that had problems at 
release were kick ass a few months later. The bugs do get squashed. I 
guess that's kind of what Fedora is there for, it isn't really there for 
a stable environment from the start, that's what RHEL is for.

'course, RHEL has its own issues - some bugs fixed in Fedora ages ago 
exist in RHEL 5 (like the 3dfx VooDoo tdfx driver - currently broken in 
RHEL, I believe the exact same issue was patched in Fedora Core 6 fairly 
quickly - I guess after they made the fork for RHEL)