Announcing the release of Fedora 20 Beta!

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Wed Nov 13 14:23:39 UTC 2013


----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
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> > *** Note on performance ***
> >
> > Fedora development releases use a kernel with extra debug information to
> > help
> > us understand and resolve issues faster; however, this can have a
> > significant
> > impact on performance. Refer to the kernel debug strategy for more details.
> > You
> > can boot with slub_debug=- or use the kernel from nodebug repository to
> > disable
> > the extra debug info.
> 
> This is inaccurate.  The kernels we ship in Beta are typically not
> debug kernels.  Booting with slub_debug=- on the Beta kernel is a
> no-op, and there isn't a nodebug repository for Branched.

"Typically" - can we make sure it's always true for Beta, that it contains
non debug kernel? To avoid this kind of inaccuracy? As the Beta announcement
is usually copied from Alpha, I'm going to put there a comment that this
part should be typically removed for Beta.

Jaroslav

> > *** Issues and Details ***
> >
> > Heisenbug Alpha is a testing release. To report issues encountered during
> 
> Probably should have said Heisenbug Beta....
> 
> josh
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