Fedora 11, at this point in time and in my opinion, sucks. Updates are problematic, the mirrors don't have the complete basic install packages, even OpenOffice, I had to go to the cd's to complete that Install. I have wasted so much time, the costs of trying to install Fedora 11 would be in the hundreds of dollars if tallied in billable hours. It is almost impossible to install any applications from either the base or mirror package repositories. I can not remember when installing a Linux OS was so frustrating as Fedora 11 has been. Can't believe I blew away a Fedora 10 installation to upgrade to Fedora 11. Update - 06/11 I am having a little better luck (one has to call it luck) this morning in installing packages but Fedora 11 is still not redeeming itself. MonoDevelope is 2.0, not 2.4, the folks at Redhat/Fedora only begrudgingly include Mono in their repositories and shuned it all together on the liveCD build. Update - 06/14 I wrote previously " Hope the folks at Fedora have not been taking notes from Microsoft in understating system requirements but the recommended minimum system is a PII 400 MHz and 256 RAM, I intend to try this over the weekend." I have a 1 GHz 256 RAM laptop system, it would not boot the LiveCD to the desktop and after about 3 attempts, I finally mentored the Full DVD to complete install. The first install, using choice wouldn't load to the installer; the second pass with the VGA choice, loaded and started the install but about 3/4 of the way through, lost its connection to the DVD; third pass, save DVD media, I got a complete install and on reboot correctly loaded the video display driver but it is complaining about my hard drive as having bad sectors (not saying that it doesn't) but it passes the diagnostic. Conclusion is that with a little nursing, it will install and run pretty well in 256 MB, does boot fairly quickly compared to previous distros I have installed on this system. Have not tried to load DVD Movie support but I suspect this would be a waste as the startup sound does not play smoothy. I have been able to play DVD';s with other distro's on this same laptop. So far updates from mirrors seem to be working on this install. During the install, I chose both the Office Productivity and Developement defaults with the result that OpenOffice was incomplete, missing Base, emailmerge, ExtendedPDF. Not a lot of development packages were loaded either, Mono was a manual install and missing in action, Python's IDLE IDE, tkinter is available but no IDLE from the repositories, Monodevelop is the older 2.0 version. No geewiz graphics... 06/21 Update - Installed on the 1 GHz laptop with 256 of ram, this is NOT a multimedia machine. Will not stream video from DVD or audio from Audio CD's, even the startup sound is halting in playback, does not stream. This is Pentium 3 laptop certified for Windows XP and does play both DVD's and CD's with other distros as well as on Windows XP and includes a JBL Pro internal audio system. Also, I have found the programming environment somewhat limited in terms of tools even though Fedora/Redhat is emphasizing their cross compiler for other operating system; what good is that if you are limited by the Fedora 11 in the tools and software development environments such as python and mono. Final note, I tried out the EasyLife automated software installer and it came up a bit short with failed installs, missing repositories, lack of detail in selecting applications, basically, the selection to install is done at the group, not the package level; not going there. 06/30 Distrowatch at LinuxTag (Germany) asked why Fedora 11 was so broken. To Quote: '"What have you guys done with Fedora 11? It's broken. At least that's what many Fedora users are saying." A long-winded explanation followed, but in the end, the conclusion was simple - it is just not possible to create a distribution that is both a leader in innovation and extremely stable at the same time."' Fedora 11, I don't think so...