Fedora 18, future isn't too good as it seems :-<

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 12:56:16PM +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:45:21 +0100
> Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
> 
> > Ian Malone wrote:
> > 
> > > And the move to F18 does mean a big
> > > functional change in the installer, which is what the issue is.
> > 
> > Is there something wrong with the current Anaconda?
> >
> In  relation to Fedora 17, no.
> But dracut has introduced big changes for F18,
> and Anaconda has to be re-written to suit this change(s)

Beyond which, there were a number of user experience issues with the
existing Anaconda which the team was also trying to correct.

This is a great place to read how and why that effort started:
http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2011/06/16/making-fedora-easier-to-use-the-installer-ux-redesign/

In fact, there's a huge number of blog posts about how the redesign
has been discussed and progressed.  (Note, these are on a blog feed,
so you have to start at the last post and work upward to get the story
in order.)

http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/category/fedora/anaconda/feed/


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