Rolling Fedora, for the braves
Who should use Rawhide?
End users should not use Rawhide as their main day-to-day workstation. Because Rawhide is a development branch, many changes are not heavily tested (or tested at all) before being released to Rawhide, and packages in Rawhide can and do break without warning. It is even possible that bugs in Rawhide could cause data loss. However, testing Rawhide is a very valuable activity which helps direct Fedora development and ensure that the quality of the stable releases is high. It's also a fun way to try out the latest software almost as soon as it's released. Testing Rawhide is a great way to contribute to Fedora development. You can try Rawhide or Branched (depending on the point in the release cycle) from the nightly live builds without needing to install it at all. Otherwise, you can install it if you have a spare system, or are willing to install Rawhide on an existing system and dual boot, or use a virtual machine.
Anyway, AdamW decided to give it a try, here are some of his experiences.
When I first upgraded, the desktop wouldn’t start. This was pretty easy to track down to GNOME Shell not running (at least with my particular graphics card), whereas it had in F14. So I poked it over to use old-school metacity instead and my desktop came back. Most stuff was working, but gedit was broken; Dan Williams kindly came up with a fix for that one. I also noticed that Firefox Sync, which as I mentioned recently I’ve come to rely on quite a lot, wasn’t working in the Firefox 4 Beta 6 build Rawhide currently has; I tracked this down to a couple of issues that are known upstream and will go away when we have Beta 7 in Rawhide (which would have been today except the maintainer obviously sent the build through and went home, but they forgot a change to the file list and the build failed). Yesterday, Evolution started misbehaving;......
Even with Pulse working, the volume control panel applet wasn’t coming up; this was a bug in its code, which was somewhat complicated by the fact that with the release of GNOME 2.91.2, which is still getting pushed out to Rawhide, it moved from gnome-media to control-center. Today a set of updates to control-center, gnome-media and libgnome-media-profiles showed up which sort this out.
Read the rest of the story at: http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/11/12/raaaaaaawwwhide-rolling-rolling-rolling/
