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Upgrading Fedora 14 to 15 and Gnome V3

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I have two linux file servers and they were both on fedora 14.

I decided to upgrade them to fedora 15 and started using the two online upgrade methods - preupgrade and the Fedora documented way using yum.

Both upgrades worked flawlessly but on one of the file servers it failed all the drives in the RAID6 array**. I restored from backup to fedora 14 and the RAID was fine and has stayed fine for a week since.

Besides that problem I found the biggest problem with Fedora 15 is Gnome V3. It would only work in fallback mode on one system due to the PCI video card and on the other system it was really bad using VNC - the screen would not refresh - and I had to enable the fallback mode. For a system that is going to be used remotely Gnome 3 is useless - perhaps using X it may be better but with VNC it is hopeless.

So I had mixed success with the upgrade - one is working fine on Fedora 15 and the other system is back at Fedora 14.

** a friend hates it when anyone says RAID array. Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Independent Disks Array

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