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So, I've still kept Fedora Core 10, despite the fact that the fglrx driver is not working properly. I've gone back to using the default radeonhd driver, and compiz is working¹, I've gotten all the packages installed I feel I need to make this a "Perfect Desktop" and testing of my backup script from Debian/Ubuntu has proven to still be working. I'm really impressed with this Distro. Honestly, Fedora has come a long way since I last really used it (which was at Core 5) but it's also come a long way since I was last majorly disappointed, which was only months ago with Core 9. Kudos to you Fedora team. One thing that may catch some new users off gaurd, if you use the RPMFusion repositories, don't enable the Rawhide repositores from RPMFusion, these repositories are used for Beta testing, so unless you enable the Beta Repos from Fedora, you'll get some dependency issues. Other than that, and the FGLRX issue, all seems to be going pretty well. I do wish I could have fglrx up and running though. Oh well, for the time being, having a stable desktop is what matters most to me, and that's what I have with Fedora. Oh, and another bonus of Fedora that Ubuntu & Debian lacked, is that it has airsnort AND aircrack in the repos, which is just a nice little bonus for wifi hacking ;p

Oh, and one last thing, my webcam the Logitech Quickcam Messenger, is not working. That's not much of a surprise as it hasn't worked on Ubuntu or Debian either though, so I'm not blaming Fedora for that, I'm just hoping that maybe I can find a fix quickly.


_{Note1: Compiz is working for the most part, there are still some glitches and things are running slower than usual (scrolling in Firefox or Opera, Flash videos on youtube, etc) but it hasn't crashed, and things are "working"}


Yet again, Happy Hacking folks :]
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