The only gotchya is that due to the replacement of init by systemd, when it came time to reboot, halt/reboot/etc were unable to send the correct signals to something that would shut the machine down, so I had to do a hard reboot (which never plays nice with my RAID arrays, but upon reboot there was no RAID re-sync which is either cool or scary, I’m not yet sure which). So that was a bit nerve-wracking. Otherwise it was just a lengthy process with yum telling me I had 2850 packages to deal with (including installing and removing). Instructions are good and clear. Highly recommended if you’re even moderately technically inclined.

Now I get a good look at GNOME3, which doesn’t work in my Fedora 15 vm’s (well, it works, but it looks a lot like GNOME2 due to the “poor” video support in a vm). I’m not sure what the big deal is… it’s a little wonky and takes some getting used to. I dislike that conky doesn’t show up on the desktop, but so far that’s my only real complaint. I had icons for Komodo and CrashPlan on the desktop that are no longer visible, so had to use alacarte (“yum install alacarte; alacarte”) to create new icons to go into the GNOME menu system. Then I could add them to my favourites and was off and running. It was about 1am when I finished so I haven’t had too much time to play with it yet (although I also installed LXDE to give it a go as well, in case I didn’t like GNOME3). So far I don’t mind it though.

Everything else seemed to work out of the box other than my apache configuration file. I have a few includes in /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts.d/*.conf and they weren’t loading, so I think the handling of virtual hosts has changed because once I removed the default virtualhost definition (““) that I had defined, the virtual hosts worked again.

All in all, I’m pleased. I’ve played with F15 in my vm’s since it came out (but mostly for testing security issues, etc.) so this is the first workstation with “stuff” that I’ve upgraded. So one work vm and one laptop to go and then F14 is history. Good job on this release, Fedora Folks!

• Fedora project’s Package_update_HOWTO
• Fedora project’s Using_Fedora_GIT
• For know that I need a new version of fedora-packager
• and this for let git push to the branch you are tracking

Unfortunately, there still seems to be some issues:

Cloning into bare repository /cvs-scratch/fedora/opensc/fedpkg.git...
open log failed: Permission denied
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Could not clone: Command '['git', 'clone', '--bare', 'ssh://me@pkgs.fedoraproject.org/opensc', '/cvs-scratch/fedora/opensc/fedpkg.git']' returned non-zero exit status 128

I’m not sure what this means. But the old CVS repository doesn’t seem to be usable either, which kinda stinks. I’m sure it’s just a minor buglet or two and will get worked out eventually. Very very happy that we’re no longer using CVS for this… I’d prefer SVN myself, but git is ok too.

Dear lazyweb, how can I make this system as quite on Fedora as it is on Windows? It’s absolutely silent when Win7 is running, but when Fedora is running the fans are quite noisy. Most of the time the system has a load average of 0.00 so it isn’t CPU spiking causing the fans to go full-bore. For temperatures I have Core0 at about 51C and Core1 at 44C and the other two cores at 48C, but the fans are running at 1583 and 1160 rpm. I can’t get the sensors to pick up temps or fan speeds on Win7 for some reason so don’t have a basis for comparison (tried a few of those “gadgets” and none show me temperatures).

There has to be a way to lower the fan speed on Fedora but I can’t find it. I tried fancontrol from lm_sensors but it complains about not being able to manually set the fans and there’s nothing I can see in the BIOS that’s even remotely relevant.

Am I doomed to a noisy Fedora box? Or is there a way I can make this thing quieter short of buying new fans? (The latter is an option I suppose, but if Win7 can run perfectly silent, then I’m of the frame of mind that Fedora should too). Running an up to date F13 (wheeee!!). Thanks for any suggestions.

Currently Fedora is third at 8% with Ubuntu leading at 35%, and Debian in second at 10%.

Show these people some Fedora pride!

Congrats Fedora developers, users, testers, QA guys, and the many many many other people I’m forgetting. I don’t mind saying that I used to hate Fedora, but I think I was biased with years of Mandriva and just plain old not being used to it. Now that I’ve used Fedora 10, 11, and now 12, I can honestly say that I’m a great big Fedora fan now (and, seriously, if you’re still reading my gushing and haven’t started downloading, get cracking because it’s worth it!)