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[linrad] Fedora Rocks?

I am sending this 'Fedora Adventure' only to bring a smile to your faces. No help is needed here...
Although several on this list have dragged me into the world of Debian, Knoppix, etc., I have been something of a RedHat Fedora Core 3 diehard, running Fedora on my main Linrad EME / WSE machine ever since RedHat was no longer an option [for one wanting periodic updates].
Last week I let Fedora do its up2date thing as usual. When I came back to that computer Monday I found that the screen gave nothing but garbage once interactive boot up started.
I booted into mode 3 and graphics were fine, leading me to suspect that something had happened to xorg, likely related to the recent up2date of last week. So I did an up2date from the command line and interestingly enough, there were about 15 updates related to xorg. So I surmised that there had been a problem with the last up2date involving the xorg files, and that Fedora had issued a set of corrections. Scouting around a bit on the web confirmed this. No problem, but...
Now, everything works fine and Linrad runs fine. There is a new, major inconvenience however, as now when I hit 'escape' to leave Linrad, I am taken not back to xwindows, but to the logon screen where I must enter username and password. 

So I guess that:
1. someone found 'a vulnerability' somewhere that caused the developers to force a re-login to Fedora when one has left XWindows to run svgalib [alternate explanation: there is still a bug] 

2.  I will now put Debian on this machine too.

3.  Seeing #2 will bring out some smiles across the web.
Although I must admit that its possible that I still have a problem from the first update, based on information from these links: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168844
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/Fedora_Core_3_Update_xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2_s55543.html
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/XorgUpdateFix
which show that this is really a nasty RPM bug that happened to 'hose' the xorg update.
So I will try to fix things this weekend and if I get to a state where I don't get booted back to the login screen each time I exit Linrad after that I may keep Fedora Core 3 for a while longer. Thereby proving yet again that old habits die hard [there are plenty of other examples of this in the world]... 

73,

Roger
W3Sz

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Roger Rehr
W3SZ
http://www.qsl.net/w3sz

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