[CALUG] Fedora 11/12 and FF 3.5

[Walt Smith]

I'm thinking ahead.. when the release happens.

I do have dialup only.
When I had FC6, I didn't see any reason to upgrade
to FC7, or 8.  I upgraded to 9 only because I had an
itch and wishful thinking.  I then upgraded to 10
because I had access to a high speed line and a DVD burner.
And could D/L the updates:  I usually like to wait about a month
after the initial release before I get the iso + updates
so the worse kinks are gone.

The release is mid-November, so I'm just "shopping" at the moment.
i.e. looking for a reason !!
Will Fc12 really  be worth much more for my purposes.. ??

PS: I'm writing lots of small C# programs in mono so my desktop is also
a development station.. I mean, like under 100 line programs,
all CLI oriented, no gui's. 

thanks,
Walt........


--- On Mon, 10/19/09, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:

> From: Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org>
> Subject: Re: [CALUG] Fedora 11/12  and FF 3.5
> To: waltechmail at yahoo.com, CALUG at unknownlamer.org
> Date: Monday, October 19, 2009, 2:05 PM
> Dumb question ... why not just
> upgrade to Fedora 11?
> It has Firefox 3.5x.
> 
> If you want diff upgrades because of connectivity
> limitations,
> then I can bring a DVD with updates to the next meeting or
> you can use Cheapbytes or someone else.
> 
> 
> I wouldn't go to Fedora 12 until it is released.  It
> is often built
> with debugging and other information (which always makes
> me laugh when they benchmark it).
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Walt Smith <waltechmail at yahoo.com>
> 
> hi,
> 
> Just wondering if anyone has tried  Fedora 12
> pre-release
> with FF 3.5 (Firefox) ?  I haven't checked kern verson
> or FF version
> included in FC12 on alpha/beta sites yet..
> 
> Separately, the new(er) kernel ( 2.6.31 or 32) has a fix
> to
> supposely speed up desktop response by about 2X.  And
> at the same
> time, FF 3.5 is supposed to be 2X faster than 3.0.11,
> which
> is in Fedora 10. (FC10 is still getting upgrades, but they
> wont
> upgrade FF to 3.5)
> 
> **
> So I'm wondering if anyone has tried these together on a
> reasonable
> sized desktop machine with a one chip CPU and 1/2 gig to 1
> gig ram.
> And if there is noticeable speed increase?
> 
> I should note I usually use gnome desktop, but based on the
> Q I 
> pose, I doubt that gnome or kde makes any difference..
> 
> ( and of course, I'd have to remind-- how could I not say
> that a 
> recent FC6 box I was using seems much snappier as a desktop
> user than FC10... not to start an argument or anything..
> yeah yeah yeah I know, FC10 has many more features..
> but.... 
> you know ! )
> 
> **
> At the same time, has anyone tried upgrading FC12 
> pre-release
> using some "difference" package mechanism coming in FF12 
> ( or so I understand).  I believe that FF 11 doesn't
> have diff 
> updating ?  I'd like to know how well the diff works.
> 
>