[fedora-websites] Issue #928: Workstation download page advertises incorrect
media size
by Michael Catanzaro
catanzaro reported a new issue against the project: `fedora-websites` that you are following:
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Our download page:
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/
says the F29 live image is 1.8 GB, but this is not true. It's actually 1,931,476,992 bytes, which rounds down to 1.9 GB. That happens to be 1.799 GiB, so 1.8 GiB would be reasonable, but the download page says GB, not GiB. My guess is it's improperly doing its computation in GiB, and nobody noticed before now because the live image was previously not large enough for the difference between GB and GiB to actually matter.
We should consider rounding up, anyway, and reporting 2.0 GB, because a 1.9 GB USB drive would not be large enough to hold the 1.93 GB image. This will become a practical problem very soon because soon we'll be reporting that the download image is 2.0 GB large, and users will be trying to flash it to 2.0 GB USB drives, and they will be disappointed when it doesn't work.
Moved from https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/86
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https://pagure.io/fedora-websites/issue/928
4 years, 8 months
New contributor self introduction - Mikael Granberg
by Mikael Granberg
Hello!
My name is Mikael and I've just signed up for a Fedora account to be
able to contribute to the Fedora Websites Project for starters.
_About myself_
I'm a middle aged father of two beautiful kids. I live in the southern
parts of Sweden. Computers is my life. I've got my first computer in
1982 when I was seven years old. It was a Commodore 64 with a tape
station. My first programming experience was in C64 Basic. My first
favorite computer game was Miner 2049'er. Besides my interest in
computers I like to cook and spend time with my family and kids. I also
read (eBooks or audio-books) a lot. Right now I'm reading Factfullnes by
Dr Hans Rosling.
_My skills_
*Software Programming* - I know a lot of different programming
languages, but my strength lies within ADA, Pascal, Java, Microsoft c#
and Visual Basic.
*Web development* - I also know a lot of different web development
languages and systems. I started out with HTML, Lotus Script and Lotus
Domino Web server many years ago. But today my strengths lay within PHP,
HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, XSLT, JSON, etc. I also know a lot about web
server operations on both Linux and Windows. In my professional life I
have been working with both Apache and IIS.
*Databases* - I have came across a lot of databases during my life.
Within my professional life I have been working with Microsoft SQL
Server, MySQL, SAP Basis, SAP HANA and Oracle databases.
*Operations* - In my professional life I have been working both as a
software engineer but also as an operations engineer. So I know a bit
about both worlds and the many, so hard to solve struggles between "the
software developer" and "the server operator". I'm familiar with both
Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and a lot of other Linux flavors. I am also very
experienced on the Microsoft platforms.
*Everything else* - I'm very skilled when it comes to translating
content between English and Swedish. I have written a lot of support
articles for basically everything between how to connect your modem to a
telephone line and how to write surveillance scripts in Nagios. I like
to write technical articles.
That's the short version of me. Thank you all for your time.
Kind regards, Mikael Granberg
4 years, 8 months