I think I've been learning that it's sometimes unwise to outwit very engineered computer systems. My Athlon at home has a mix of Redhat 8 and Redhat 9 on it, and although that seemed like a good idea at the time, it's turning out to be a major problem. I upgraded so I could use the latest gaim RPMs, well, originally, I just needed to upgrade gtk/glib, but tracking that dependency chain (by hand) caused me to upgrade half the system, including X. And so I'm again having font problems like I used to have when I had a mix of 7.3 and rawhide -- whenever mozilla visits a page with russian or arabic on it, it hangs. And now gaim's acting unstable with some other little upgrades I did on it. I'm not really sure if I want to upgrade the rest of the way to 9, do a fresh install of 9, or tough it out until 9.1 comes out and do a fresh install of that. 9.1 is set to be a really awesome release. In my opinion, these are the interesting upgrades RedHat has given us: 6.x->7.0, 7.1->7.2, 7.3->8.0, 9.0->9.1 (well, not yet, but the beta looks really cool). The 8.0->9.0 upgrade was really uninteresting.

Oh, tonight is garbage night. Hmmm... good time to change the cat litter :)