Hi Docs team, As you know, the Beta has been slipped a week to March 31. Jesse Keating outlined the reasons for this in his announcement[1], which include issues in the Anaconda installer, which has had a complete rewrite of its storage backend. We *really* need Beta downloaders to be aware of these issues when they download, so they need to be called out well in the Beta release notes. Also, we want to encourage people *not* to hold off, because without more testing of the Beta, it is less likely issues are going to be found, filed, and fixed. (Hmm, three more "good f-words.") ;-) In particular, a couple things for which I believe Beta testers should have a super-big "heads up": * the storage rewrite, and how it affects their ability to install (problems are currently in RAID and properly picking up some LVM configurations) * ext4 as default -- I think this is still the plan; updates aren't converted, but fresh installs will default to ext4 file systems * BACK UP DATA!!!1!! Yes, we really should impress this on people, especially if they're in the RAID or LVM category (which is most people -- default installations use LVM nowadays). So we're trying to set reasonable expectations, while encouraging people to test, especially installation. I have some information on current Anaconda gaps, which I can include in the [[Common F11 bugs]] page, if that helps. * * * [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-March/msg00015.html -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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