Fedora 15 -> 16 Upgrade

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I have just completed upgrading my Fedora 15 machine to F16 and I am very surprised! Besides the fact that I had to force a hard reset after the upgrade because it didn't want to reboot, everything else is running a lot better than it was previously. Boot time is probably about 4 times faster (F15 was ridiculously slow) and applications are just opening quicker and smoother. I don't know if its the Gnome 3.0 -> 3.2 updates, but I am glad I had the guts to do the upgrade

Schweet, now I can use the newer shell extensions ... and also see if I can find anything that broke.

 

[milomak]

i always found the version upgrading on fedora precarious at best with the possibility of leaving behind many legacy packages an issue.

that said i once did an epic upgrade from f11 to f14 or something. i was particularly proud of that one.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Hehe, I think they've come a long way. The upgrade really went smooth and pretty quick too (about 2.5 hours including 1gig downloads). Only thing that I've found that is broken so far is audio on the new version of wine - however I'm not sure if that's Fedora or wine as my sound works fine on ver 1.2 of wine.

 

[wishblade]

Well, did my upgrade a couple of days back... Went pretty well, until the reboot. On loading of the login window, I got that sad computer face, with the message that something had gone wrong and to contact the system administrator. So the joys... turns out that the installer downloads the wrong caribou package in the x86_64 upgrade (the i686 version is downloaded). Which meant downloading the correct version from another PC, and replacing it on my bjorked install.

Other than that though, I've had no other issues. Not sure about the sound on wine - mine seems to work fine
Only thing that I'm still pretty cheesed off with is having to run Netbeans in a window, since when its maximised, the widescreen seems to mess around with the mouse pointer location - menus don't stay open when clicked, the mouse clicks on options other than what I'm trying to select, etc. But then again, I had that since F15, and appears to be related to Netbeans itself. I think I've sort of adapted to the "changed" mode, since it appears I'm too lazy to go look for the solution.

Anyway, definitely impressed with F16 - I fully agree with timvdwest; it seems to be a vast improvement over F15. I suspect most of it is related to the Gnome3 update, but I'll play around in the holiday (leave starts next week )...