Fedora 19 status is ALIVE, GA on July 02, 2013

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Jun 28 17:33:51 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 13:31 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On 06/28/2013 01:24 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 13:19 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Adam Williamson
> >> <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> There is another 'workaround' you haven't considered: we can
> >>> simply build an updates.img that fixes the issue (or works
> >>> around it, by ditching the commit from 19.13.10 that apparently
> >>> broke this case), and link to that from the common bugs page
> >>> and the bug itself.
> >> 
> >> I asked Matthew and Brian about that earlier.  It can be done,
> >> but most Macs don't have working wireless until after install
> >> because b43 and sucky firmware.  So any updates.img would likely
> >> need to be stuck on a USB key.  Something to keep in mind if it
> >> gets written up for common bugs.
> > 
> > Yee, I just _love_ me some Macs. Thanks; I'll take that into
> > account for commonbugs. When did Macs stop having ethernet ports?
> 
> When the MacBook Air became the flagship Mac.

It was a genuine question, not a rhetorical 'OMG how can they not have
ethernet?!?' one - I was hoping for some specifics. It'll affect the
tone of the common bugs entry.

> I think most MacBook Pro and all desktop models still have one, though.

I figured desktops, but wasn't sure about MBPs. Thanks.
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