Is It Worth Installing F9 Alpha?

[John Summerfield]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>>>
>>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>>> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks everyone for your feedback. I guess I'll wait for the beta
>>>>> release. March 20 or so...that's not long.
>>>> You can, of course, continue to read about things that don't work.
>>>> Just in case you are tempted to throw caution to the wind:-)
>>>>
>>> My impression is that there may not be that many testers of Fedora 9. Or
>>> at least, fewer people seem to be posting about Fedora 9 bugs. I wonder
>>> if momentum for the Fedora distro has slowed a bit? Fedora Core 1 seemed
>>> to have many testers...now Fedora 9 seems to have fewer folks out there.
>>> But then I may not be very observant.
>>
>> Well, we're not up to beta yet, and this alpha is a good one to miss. 
>> I say that as one who has it.
> 
> I prefer the point of view that, due to installing the alpha, *many* 
> bugs have been identified in what will be a release full of incredible 
> advances. ;)
Oyes, but it's a bit late for that.
> 
> And it really is... PackageKit, ConsoleKit, PolicyKit, upstart, 
upstart eh? I met that on ubuntu, I'm glad to see it. It probably 
explains another bug: this doesn't work:
[summer at localhost ~]$ egrep mingetty.*clear /etc/inittab
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1
[summer at localhost ~]$

I'm not the only one who does that, I did it when someone else had a 
problem and I was trying to help out.


> FF3/xulrunner, disk encryption, ext4, liveusb persistence, and lots of 
> the other features are really neat stuff.
>