[rawhide] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant))

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:21 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb at znmeb.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
>> Le dimanche 09 décembre 2012 à 15:18 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky a
>> écrit :
>>
>>> There's no way I can run my laptop on Rawhide - it's dual-booted with
>>> Windows 8 Pro and Fedora 18. But I do have an ancient crash-and-burn
>>> workstation I can run Rawhide on. It's currently dual-booted Fedora 18
>>> and Linux Mint 14, but I rarely run the Mint part and I could easily
>>> convert that partition to Rawhide or even blow away Fedora 18 and Mint
>>> in favor of Rawhide.
>>
>> What about doing a triple boot, if you share swap and /home, you can get
>> enough space to install a 3rd distro, no ?
>
> It's not worth the effort - the machine is the first dual-core Athlon
> ever built, the USB ports are either dead or 1.1, the NVidia card is
> mucked up and it only has 4 GB of RAM. I do most of my testing in VMs
> on the 8 GB laptop under virt-manager on Fedora or VirtualBox and
> VMware Workstation on Windows. I've also got the Client Hyper-V
> feature of Windows 8 Pro on the laptop but it needs a wired network to
> function coherently. I'll probably haul the workstation down to
> FreeGeek and just make the laptop my workstation. Rawhide's fine in a
> VM. ;-)
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> How the Hell can the lion sleep with all those people singing "A weem
> oh way!" at the top of their lungs?

Update - I have said ancient creaky workstation dual-booted Fedora 18
Beta and Rawhide and the Rawhide partition is now "stable". There were
two show-stoppers on the Rawhide piece - some kind of bizarre X.org /
nouveau issue that was locking the machine up when I opened Firefox,
and a missing dependency for LibreOffice. Those have gone away and I
can now use the machine in Rawhide.

I'll probably switch to Firefox beta and put in the Chrome beta as
well, since I spend a lot of time in the browser. Might as well live
on the edge. ;-)

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How the Hell can the lion sleep with all those people singing "A weem
oh way!" at the top of their lungs?