Fedora Core 3 was released on Monday. By early Wednesday morning I had the DVD ISO downloaded and burnt onto a shiny new DVD+R.
I popped the freshly burnt DVD into my laptop ( an IBM Thinkpad T40 ) and upgraded an existing Fedora Core 2 installation. The installation ran longer than I hoped it would but it also ran much more smoothly than I had anticipated. An hour and a half after popping the DVD in, I had Fedora Core up and running with NO, yes I said “NO” problems.
The only thing I had to do was compile the ipw2100 drivers from scratch since no RPMs exist for the 2.6.9 Kernel yet. I also had to put the ipw2100 firmware into the new location on Fedora Core 3 which is /lib/firmware from the FC2 location /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.
It’s only been about an hour since upgrading to FC3 and so far no problems at all. Even CrossOver office with Quicken 2004 runs as smoothly as it did with FC2.
Thanks to all the great folks working on FC3. It’s been the easiest upgrade so far.
My next step will be to do a completely fresh install on my home PC …