Fedora 9 released [LWN.net]

Fedora 9 released

Posted May 14, 2008 18:41 UTC (Wed) by dougg (subscriber, #1894)
Parent article: Fedora 9 released

In trying to upgrade a dual boot machine (w2000/Fedora8) with the i386 DVD it failed with
"duplicate labels". Strange, upgrades from FC5->FC6->FC7->F8 worked fine on the same machine
in the past. And Fedora on that machine is "clean" in the sense only "yum update"s have been
done.

I'm not the only one having problems:
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=E800C1E1-17A4-0F78-316FA...
and I also got the "Try 2" error.

F9 is starting to look three quarter baked.

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Fedora 9 released

Posted May 14, 2008 20:21 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

At night, the slow keys come.

Fedora slow keys and stuttering response

Posted May 15, 2008 14:50 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

Just curious, do recent versions of Fedora still have that dreaded "stuttering" response? I'm referring to latency issues with mouse pointer movement, keystroke response, and page scrolling most visible when running Firefox, noticeable back in the FC2/FC3 days. A Fedora user at my local LUG said it was due to a near-constant stream of memory page faults.

I've never noticed such latency issues in any distro other than Red Hat and Fedora...

Fedora slow keys and stuttering response

Posted May 15, 2008 15:00 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

Firefox can be unresponsive sometimes, but other applications running at the same time don't seem to be affected.

Fedora slow keys and stuttering response

Posted May 22, 2008 11:02 UTC (Thu) by HugoA (guest, #52201) [Link]

Also, you can try to disable smooth scrolling in firefox (in options under advanced ->
general). Ironically, disabling it makes scrolling a lot smoother for me.

FC2/3 was a long time ago, and I've never seen this stuttering (been with fedora since FC6).