Rawhide / Fedora rant

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

I'm sure this is nothing new for anyone here, but thought reminding people why 
it's a pain to develop for Fedora may help.  When I updated my laptop couple 
days ago:

- Audio stopped working (again).  Looks like kernel issue (again).  Used to 
work last week.

- X stopped starting.  Removing xorg-x11-drv-ati helps, but then there's 
artifacts on the screen, and I guess it also causes the next issue.  arlied 
says everything should be fixed now, but it's still not in rawhide.

- Firefox stopped starting.  Crashes now with glibc detected buffer overflow.


Some longer-term issues:

- Cannot import photos from my Canon Rebel XSi camera.  gvfs-gdu-volume 
segfaults.  Used to work with F10.

- Cannot edit audio.  Hard to find a version of audacity in Fedora or 
RPMFusion that can open *any* file I want to edit.

- Cannot meaningfully edit video.  Don't even say "Pitivi".  So far mencoder 
and vim have been the way to go.

Couldn't do more to get in the way of my "creative" activities.

Cheers,
behdad