Linux Fedora 13 (Goddard) Discussion Thread

vishalrao

vishalrao

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I just realised that nobody bothered to create such a thread, so here goes.

Since F13 alpha is released and I've downloaded it and planning to install it this weekend on my tablet PC if not also on my desktop.

See the following links:

F13 Alpha release announcement - FedoraProject

Fedora 13 Alpha release notes - FedoraProject

Releases/13/FeatureList - FedoraProject

Robert H. Goddard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fedora 13 "spins"

I'm interested in checking out btrfs (if its stable enough) especially since an email on PLUG (Pune) mailing list titled "btrfs twice as fast as ext4" (haha) reminded me of its goodness.

See:

Features/SystemRollbackWithBtrfs - FedoraProject

btrfs Wiki

Personally, I think Fedora and Ubuntu are the "superpowers" of the Linux distros with each having its own strengths and criticisms... the rest of them are a waste of time except for specialised needs/preferences IMHO.
 
hellknight_mnd said:
I'm getting about 57 MB/s speed on Fedora 12 (64-bit) on ext4 while copying large files.. seems to me that I should try out the alpha release now..
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Raw disk speed also would be around 60-70 MB/s for the area where ext4 was giving you 57 MB/s. So, the maximum, and unlikely, gain you can get is around 10 MB/s.

The real fun of btrfs starts when you use multiple devices to create a btrfs filesystem when data is striped across them. No hassle RAID, especially the advantage is that there is no RAID write hole : RAID-Z : Jeff Bonwick's Blog.

RAID write hole is extremely important for home systems, where power-loss due to carelessness / hardware failure is much more likely than on servers.
 
Any plans of Fedora to include XBMC in RPM fusion repository.. I hate compiling it... and they should fix the ATI driver issue to yaar.. mesa-dri drivers don't give a good performance on my system.. 4870's fan spins at high speed due to those drivers I suppose...
 
OK.. suppose I download the beta release, then can I upgrade to the final release once it becomes available or will I have to download the official final release again??
 
i believe so, yes, if you install the beta then when you update it automatically "becomes" the final release... though i dont follow fedora that closely, there was some stuff on mailing lists about fedora 13 "branch" but i guess thats unrelated. (me clueless)
 
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