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Re: Fedora 18 status is Go, release planned for January 15, 2013



Here is a link to the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FegjLbCnoBw

I am looking forward to the talk videos from this year's Linux Conf
AU, which is at the end of the month.



On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Casey Boone <caseyboone@gmail.com> wrote:
> One of the XFS maintainers did a presentation on improvements and compared
> performance to ext4 and btrfs around this time last year.  I would hope
> btrfs got better, but I imagine XFS and EXT4 numbers are still pretty
> accurate.  I will link the list when I get to a terminal that isn't a phone,
> unless someone beats me to it.  Good presentation even if you don't care for
> XFS (it obviously will have a little XFS bias)
>
> On Jan 19, 2013 3:09 PM, "Charter Mail" <unixman@charter.net> wrote:
>>
>> Doc,
>>
>>   Can you run some kind of performance test for io usage, etc against xfs
>> and ext4 ?? Would love to see how it compares?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jan 18, 2013, at 4:46 PM, "Robert G. (Doc) Savage"
>> <dsavage@peaknet.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Kevin,
>> >
>> > Wuss. I set up both / and /home with btrfs. So far so good.
>> >
>> > --Doc
>> >
>> > On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 15:26 -0600, Kevin Thomas wrote:
>> >> I stuck with ext4 too.  I'm not ready to go to into the deep end yet.
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Casey Boone <caseyboone@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>        I am going to stick with ext4 and xfs, but if someone does and
>> >>        makes use of the advanced things btrfs does, definitely let
>> >>        the list know
>> >>
>> >>        On Jan 18, 2013 8:55 AM, "Kevin Thomas" <axel2078@gmail.com>
>> >>        wrote:
>> >>                Is anyone going to be brave enough to try btrfs? :)
>> >>
>> >>                Kevin
>> >>
>> >>                On 1/16/2013 8:24 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>> >>                        On Sun, 2013-01-13 at 20:50 -0600, Robert G.
>> >>                        (Doc) Savage wrote:
>> >>                                Yes, RHEL7 will branch from F18.
>> >>
>> >>                                Not 100% sure about the final default
>> >>                                filesystem. I'm still backing up
>> >>                                my F17 hard drive before beginning the
>> >>                                TC4 install on hardware. However,
>> >>                                in earlier betas ext4 was still the
>> >>                                default. I've heard there are other
>> >>                                choices, but I can't tell you from my
>> >>                                own knowledge quite yet.
>> >>
>> >>                                --Doc
>> >>
>> >>                                On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 22:38 -0600,
>> >>                                Kevin Thomas wrote:
>> >>                                        I thought that someone said
>> >>                                        that RHEL would be based on
>> >>                                        Fedora 18, is
>> >>                                        that correct? How is 18
>> >>                                        looking for those that have
>> >>                                        tried it? What is
>> >>                                        the default file system
>> >>                                        format?
>> >>                        OK. I'm now installing from the final release
>> >>                        F18 x86_64 DVD so I can
>> >>                        answer your question.
>> >>
>> >>                        At the INSTALLATION DESTINATION screen, select
>> >>                        the disk(s) you want F18
>> >>                        installed to and click on Done in the bottom
>> >>                        right corner. The screen
>> >>                        will gray out except for a white rectangle in
>> >>                        the center titled
>> >>                        INSTALLATION OPTIONS. Click on the [+]
>> >>                        Partition scheme configuration.
>> >>                        There you'll see a choice between Standard
>> >>                        Partition, LVM, and btrfs
>> >>                        "Partition types". Whichever one you choose,
>> >>                        you still have the option
>> >>                        to check "Let me customize the partitioning of
>> >>                        the disks instead."
>> >>
>> >>                        Editorial comment: The new all-graphical
>> >>                        anaconda is mostly black &
>> >>                        white, and not particularly well laid out.
>> >>                        Your gaze is not "led"
>> >>                        smoothly around the various screens. It has
>> >>                        very little visual appeal.
>> >>                        Hopefully they'll hand those screens over to
>> >>                        the graphic artists when
>> >>                        RHEL7 branches.
>> >>
>> >>                        --Doc
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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