So I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to redhat 9 on my home workstation (from 7.0)... [click below for details]The installation was trivial, however it required that I free about 700megs from my /usr which was quite a challenge.

My G400 seems to be working in accelerated mode, though I did have to install Matrox's own mgadriver to get the right DRI module for HW accel...

While the gnome2 desktop is pretty, I still prefer Enlightenment, so I found some RPMs for it thanks to a guy named Eric. Once this was installed I had to trick the session manager into remembering that I really did want to run Enlightenment from then on.

The absence of MP3 support in xmms was a drag, but I did find a compatible mp3 codec from Freshrpms. My previously installed crossfade plugin and others were still in place and working, but I am missing the gnomexmms panel launcher...

I'm still rebuilding my panel, I'm not sure why the configuration was blown away....

The font aliasing is very nice so far...

FirebirdMozilla was also a bit tricky to get working properly via gnometerminal and dingus clicking. By setting it up in the "Preferred Applications" gnome dialogue, I found that gnome-moz-remote will talk to MozillaFirebird..

All of my perl modules that I need for webvcr+ were blown away, so I spent the better part of an hour reinstalling them from CPAN, so I think its working once more...

CUPS blew away my printing setup, printtooll fixes that readily enough..

Perl was upgraded so I lost all of my modules, that sucked quite hard...

I'm sstill assessing the damage from the upgrade, haven't had a lot of time to work on it yet....