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

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 08:57:05AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >>Just to cite similar complaints I see from time to time...  It irritates
> >>me that people think it's a problem that in 2012 they can't install in a
> >>VM that is allocated with 256M of RAM. Allocate a reasonable amount,
> >>start over. Your host system for multiple VMs in 2012 should not have 1G
> >>of memory.
> >What about my host system for 500 VMs?
> Use elastic allocation.  It takes a lot of ram to say "please
> depsolve these 40 packages" which turns into "install these 250
> (minimal) packages".  So in order to handle that kind of task
> (once), allocate a large amount of ram.  Once that task is complete,
> the actual work the image will be doing may require a lot less ram,
> so you can scale down what you allocate to that guest.

Which is of course what everyone is doing. I was replying to the broader
theme (small VMs are useless) out of context, probably because it was early
in the morning.

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