Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 11:42 +0100, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky píše v St 07. 11. 2012 v 22:06 -0800:
> > I've now done half a dozen F18 multi-boot installs and I must say it's
> > a miracle I haven't over-written something I wanted to keep. The thing
> > that would make it usable for me would be very simple - just put the
> > partition names on the labeling so I know what's going to end up
> > where! The rest of the installer is fine but the partitioner needs
> > either a user interface redesign or extensive documentation.
> 
> Yes, I just did partitioning in the current F18 and I must say it's a
> piece of "art". I had old partitions on the disk and wanted to
> preserve /home. I don't think I'm an inexperienced user because I've
> done countless installations of different systems, but I completely
> failed to do what I wanted to do with the new Anaconda. And even Fedora
> QA guys, who heavily test it, had hard times to figure out how to do it.
> 
> We can't expect any miracle improvements in Anaconda for F18, so we'll
> have to live with what we have now. 

Actually, there are rather a lot in 18.27, with more to come...
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