On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 04:51:43PM +1100, Roger wrote:
> On 01/28/2013 02:43 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 17:10:36 -0500,
> > "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>That would truly be a shame! I have used Fedora since
> >>13/14.....and I've loved every version of it! But if they start
> >>cranking out something that isn't "reliable" enough for me to
> >>work on daily.....I might have to either stick with F17 (which
> >>will eventually leave me "stranded" on a distro that won't
> >>receive updates anymore!) or else
> >
> >F18 works well for me. I have heard of people having trouble with
> >fedup or anaconda or kernel / video driver regressions, but once
> >you have it installed with a kernel that works for your hardware it
> >should be fine.
> Me also
> I find it reliable and quite good to use.
> My only minigripe woudl be the way the windows I have open on the
> desktop frequently go smaller if the mouse moves too far.
> It seems an unnecessary extravagance. I'd love to stop that.
> Apart from that Fedora18 ,V. V good.
> Roger
Well, I found the installer a bit of a PITA, rather a big PITA. It took
me almost five days with umpteen times of reinstalls that I was able to
understand its logic & how I could circumvent it to do my job.
First of all it has stranage quirks which surface & block one from taking
an action so I partitioned the disks & created btrfses manually from
command line to include them in the install & circumvent the logic the
installer has.
Developers need to really work on the manual partioning logic to get it
right, where one can do almost anything what linux promises.
I would really love to do the dirty work of checking & reporting on the
betas etc but firstly I am a bit constrained due to my job that prevents
me from devoting my time towards that & more importantly my machine is
not virtualization capable & so I cannot work with virtual machines
where diff scenarios can be checked out.
My little suggestion to developers etc is that since it is impossible to
check all kinds of permutations due to diff ways of partioning by
individuals etc, the developers should ask for submission of scenarios
of how one would go about partioning one's disks & install the OS, that
would give lots of people with the resources to check those scenarios &
file bug reports which will make the installation code robust & also
give a chance be heard to those people who cannot do the same due to
some constraints.
It might also create a lib of cases where the same can be checked for
each release. These cases can be numbered & people can just pick one
which has not been checked & file a report of success or bug against it.
Except for the installer & a few strange logics I encountered, I find the
release quite pleasent, better & more optimized than I imagined.
It was quite a hard work & I want to convey my thanks to all who
participated in it.
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