Fedora 11 has been released. I installed it on my Eee PC 1000HE last night, via their "preupgrade" program that automatically upgrades from previous editions.

First impressions are pretty good. I haven't had any real issues so far. They did put in Firefox 3.5 beta 4, which I'm not too happy about, but there hasn't been any crashes so far.

A couple issues I had with F10 has been resolved. First, they've upgraded the kernel to 2.6.29. F10 had 2.6.27, which didn't support the wifi card in my Eee PC, so I was running a Fedora release candidate of 2.6.29, which would crash every so often. Also, in F10, there was a problem with ACPI. My Eee PC would not go to suspend when I shut the lid; it would just keep running. This has been fixed in the new release.

I did have an issue when I ran "yum update." A couple repositories have not been updated to reflect the new edition's release. This includes Dr. Kriehn's Fedora repository. For the time being, open the particular repository's ".repo" file located in "/etc/yum.repos.d" and change "enabled=1" to "enabled=0." This change will be permanent until it is changed again. If you wish to temporarily disable a repository, use "yum --disablerepo=*," where * is the name of the repository.

Fedora 11 uses the ext4 file system by default. However, since I simply upgraded my Fedora 10 installation, I am still using ext3. I prefer this at the moment because several data loss errors have been reported with ext4 on Fedora.

Like I said before, I have not had any major issues. If any arise, I will report them here. I will be upgrading my F10 server to F11 via preupgrade within the week. Any bugs with that will also be reported here.

This is good information. I plan on installing Fedora 11 within the next week or so.

I was definitely going to wait with the ext4 filesystem until at least Fedora 12, possibly Fedora 13. I always wait at least 6 months before implementing a major change like that into my server.

Since my last post, I have updated my old server, and then, due to unrelated hardware failure, purchased a new server and am currently setting up Fedora 11 x64 on it.

Like my Eee PC, I used preupgrade to upgrade my old server. I had few issues with Fedora 10, so Fedora 11 didn't fix any major problems. It did present a couple problems though.

First, like my Eee PC, several repositories hadn't been upgraded to support Fedora 11. I followed the same solution from my laptop to disable those repositories.

Secondly, my apache installation broke after I upgraded. Looking through logs, I discovered a couple modules failed to load. As it turns out, the two modules (mod_file_cache and mod_mem_cache) are experimental. As a workaround, I simply commented out the LoadModule lines in the httpd.conf file. Apache worked perfectly fine after that.

So, after a couple weeks, I started having hardware issues unrelated to the Fedora upgrade. Given the type of device I was using as a server (VIA C7 processor [equivalent to a high-end Pentium III], 1GB ram), I decided to upgrade. I ordered a new mini-ITX barebone computer, similar to my old one, with an Intel ATOM 330 processor (dual-core with hyper-threading, 1.6 GHz, x86_64 support). I've installed Fedora 11 x64 with only minor issues associated with the installation of a new operating system on new software. So far, this server is significantly out-performing my old server.

Before I leave, a word to the wise: When you setup a server, or make major modifications, make notes of your procedures. As I am now setting up a new server, I am encountering similar issues from when I set up my previous server, however, I have to spend time to research the issues again because I have forgotten my solutions the first time around.

just upgraded to Fedora 10 and no problem with apache .

Version:
LMKIII (root) /etc/httpd/logs [1013]>rpm -qa |grep -i apache
ant-apache-regexp-1.7.1-9.2.fc11.i586
ant-apache-resolver-1.7.1-9.2.fc11.i586
ant-apache-log4j-1.7.1-9.2.fc11.i586
ant-apache-bcel-1.7.1-9.2.fc11.i586
ant-apache-oro-1.7.1-9.2.fc11.i586
ant-apache-bsf-1.7.1-9.2.fc11.i586
LMKIII (root) /etc/httpd/logs [1014]>

then I upgraded to Fedora 11 and I get an error in
/etc/httpd/logs/error_log

Function not implemented: apr_socket_accept:

I cannot even do

http://<ip>:8080/phpinfo.php

or

http://<ip>:8080/xyz.html

The browser Firefox 3.5 just hangs...no error messages

I worked on all the conf files as I did when I installed Fedora 10

I would suggest blowing away your upgraded F11 installation and just re-installing. Upgrades never go well.