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I've moved on again to the latest edition of Fedora on my home workstation. I took the cowards' way out and bought new hardware to do it. Actually, that was kind of cool too: the disks are two 250GB Seagate SATA (ST3250310AS) drives that only seem to have one platter, so they're unusually light. I'm guessing that this is the new vertical stacking of magnetic signals that I'd read about in Slashdot a while ago.

I installed the drives and booted up from the install disk for x86_64. There was a problem with video, so I swapped to the text only mode. This is where I found that you can't create RAID arrays (or was it logical volumes?) in the textual installer. Frustrated, I switched back to the graphical install but unplugged the 2nd of my two monitors in the hope that that was where the problem lay .Fortuately, it was.

The rest of the install was fine, and I'm very happy to happy to have Firefox & Thunderbird 2.0 now. I overlaid a backup of my home directory on top of the new one, and have pretty much everything back the way I want.

One weird thing was that the sound configuration went out of whack. Having a webcam with audio capabilities seemed to confuse the configuration. I ended up with two entries in my modules.conf for different sound devices, but having the same index. I went looking in there after I'd read some Fedora Forum articles about similar problems. Changing them to different indexes fixed the problem.

I grabbed the latest copy of Gnash from CVS today, compiled it on my workstation, and installed it. To my surprise, it allowed me to use YouTube almost perfectly. Also, Flash content from the Dread Squirrel Foamy now seems to work much better. I was having sound sync issues with it before.

My workstation spec is still Fedora Core 6 x86_64 and I'm running Gnash as a plugin for Firefox 1.5.0.12.