[PLUG] News from beta testing land

[Alan]

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 23:34 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> I've been playing with it for a week or so. It seems to be in
> reasonable shape -- not too many crashes, no data loss (yet). But I
> can't get past the hideous color scheme ... Ubuntu brown and orange.
> So I'm sticking with openSUSE for the moment. But I'm going to put the
> Xubuntu version on my ancient 512 MB laptop just to see what happens.
> :)
> 
> I also tried the Fedora 11 beta. It's more or less a disaster at the
> moment. It sent a kernel oops to the mother ship in the process of
> attempting an install, and it blew up trying to format a partition
> after that. And it looked to me like the (Gnome) LiveCD didn't even
> have Open Office on it!

Weird. Fedora 11 has been pretty stable for me. (And my laptop has known
problems with recent kernels.)

Try running memtest86 on your machine and see if your memory is stable.
I would also try to get a hardware report out to the Fedora people if
you can.