Installing Fedora 9

The first problem as usual is the Nvidia drivers, which have stopped working again. Nvidia is blaming Fedora, for shipping a beta version of Xorg. Fedora does not think anything proprietary is their problem. Xorg do not mention the problem at all.

For some reason, Perl has problems. It seems that the 64-bit version has upgraded to 5.10 while the 32-bit version is still on 5.8. I do not know why this is so. But this makes it impossible to update any Perl packages.

For some reason, I cannot update KDE either.

And there is the ongong RPM hell for anything related to video or audio. Officially, there is no such thing as RPM hell. Nice distributions like Fedora do not have such things.

Basic software should just work. I realise that there are people out there with a hobby of installing Linux distributions, but for the rest of us, what we want is to just install the software and have it work. And to upgrade and have it work. And not to have to fix it ourselves, even if we can. And not to run into blaming sessions from the various players.