Fedora 9 day 0
As everyone probably knows, Fedora 9 was released earlyer today, you can grab a copy on http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora
I installed it and overall it’s a much better experience than Fedora 8! All control keys on my laptop work 
As for now, I only encountered a very serious bug: I have a swiss-french (fr_CH-latin1) keyboard, and that’s what I chose during the installation process. Later during the install, you have to create an user and enter a password, that’s what I did, and...I couldn’t login to Gnome with that password! I had to Alt-F2, login as root and manually change the password for my user with “passwd”. This is a bug that will affect absolutely all swiss-french users at least...
That’s it for now. Ah, I updated my “software to install” page to get Fedora 9 with mp3/wmv/divx support...
May 14th, 2008 at 4:55 am
“Install some other applications and system tools: [snip] gparted”
So does this mean you don’t use Fedora’s default LVM partitioning?
If this is true, please tell me why.
I have read many places that peoples opinion of Fedora using LVM as the default is “wrong” and that trouble-shooting LVM ( especially for the average desktop user) can be a nightmare.
What do you think of Fedoras decision to use LVM as the default, and furthermore not enabling a simple predefined layout if a user decides not to use LVM on installation.
Thanks,
Fred
May 14th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Indeed, I don’t use LVM but there is no real reason behind that...I only know that I’ll never add additional disks in my laptop so I go the “easy” way.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
The bug you encountered is that when creating the user, the keyboard is teh US qwerty (of course it’s the only page during the install process where it is this way, everywhere else and after install, the keyboard is the one you chose).
This affected me (french latin 9 keyboard) and might affect everyone not using a US qwerty keyboard