K3RNEL

So I just distro-sync’d to Fedora 16 on my favorite laptop, my Dell Studio 15.

This isn’t a review of the distro itself, just some notes of what I immediately noticed.

For starters, I had been running KDE 4.7.2 packages on Fedora 15, by cheating yum and using..

yum update –releasever=16 kde* qt*

So the problem with doing that is that apparently if you use “yum clean all”, it’ll only clean Fedora 15′s yum cache, but not Fedora 16′s yum cache, which means my cache was outdated when doing distro-sync and kept on getting 404′s. I think my solution was running yum clean all –releasever=16, but I tried so many things I’m not sure what fixed it.

Anyway, I followed these instructions, except I felt bold and ran them from konsole on KDE instead of in run level 3. Everything worked flawlessly, I even installed grub2, and here’s where my mini-review starts:

Grub2 is ugly. Don’t get me wrong, It looks very clean, but it’s black on white. I liked the old Grub’s background picture, and am not sure if I did anything wrong or if there’s a way to get a hotdog in there.

The new Plymouth screen is beautiful. I know the only change was blue changed to gray, but it looks clean and professional. Maybe I got bored of the old plymouth screen, maybe I really like this one.

Wifi works, though bluetooth functionality apparently missing in action.
The laptop at work also has issues with bluetooth coming and going at random days, and is using Fedora 16 too, so now I’m baffled and scared. A geek needs his teeth blue and functional. Halp?