Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

[Richard Vickery]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com> wrote:

>
>> Because I, like many other general, non-tech users out here on the
>> internet who don't understand the lists, am ignorant. This is why I
>> continue asking on the wrong list. If you want to be more helpful, it
>> might be possible to take this question and post it to the correct list.
>>
>
> The correct list for pre-release variants of Fedora (e.g. F19) is
> "test at lists.fedoraproject.org" (a.k.a. "The Fedora Test List"). You have
> to join that list in the same manner as you joined this list.
>
> All discussions about pre-released software (e.g. "F19", "rawhide",
> even updates of code for existing releases) occur on that list. Once
> F19 (or an updated RPM for an existing package) is released, then
> discussions regarding that released code shift over to THIS list.
>
> In answer to your other question, grub2 is the default boot for F19 and
> grub2 looks a lot different than grub did. The fedup operation makes
> your system F19 and hence you aren't offered the old grub stuff. Also,
> being on F19 prevents us from answering a lot of your questions since
> most people on this list don't use F19 (yet).
>
> I belong to both lists (test and users). I have an F19 machine for
> experimental purposes, but I'm not a seasoned F19 user. Some other
> members of this list are also members of test, but the reverse is
> certainly NOT true (most test members never even look at this list).
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Thank you! An answer I can reply happily with / to, rather than thinking
that, unlike what the website says, this group is not so helpful.

If I am on the alpha program, why am I on 3.7x rather than 3.8x?

$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.7.2-204.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 16 16:22:52 UTC 2013 x86_64

Thanks,
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