Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

[Richard Vickery]

On Apr 25, 2013 2:22 PM, "Rick Stevens" <ricks at alldigital.com> wrote:
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> On 04/25/2013 02:04 PM, Richard Vickery issued this missive:
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>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com
>> <mailto:ricks at alldigital.com>> wrote:
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>>         Because I, like many other general, non-tech users out here on
the
>>         internet who don't understand the lists, am ignorant. This is
why I
>>         continue asking on the wrong list. If you want to be more
>>         helpful, it
>>         might be possible to take this question and post it to the
>>         correct list.
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>>     The correct list for pre-release variants of Fedora (e.g. F19) is
>>     "test at lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto:test at lists.fedoraproject.org>"
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>>     (a.k.a. "The Fedora Test List"). You have
>>     to join that list in the same manner as you joined this list.
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>>     All discussions about pre-released software (e.g. "F19", "rawhide",
>>     even updates of code for existing releases) occur on that list. Once
>>     F19 (or an updated RPM for an existing package) is released, then
>>     discussions regarding that released code shift over to THIS list.
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>>     In answer to your other question, grub2 is the default boot for F19
and
>>     grub2 looks a lot different than grub did. The fedup operation makes
>>     your system F19 and hence you aren't offered the old grub stuff.
Also,
>>     being on F19 prevents us from answering a lot of your questions since
>>     most people on this list don't use F19 (yet).
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>>     I belong to both lists (test and users). I have an F19 machine for
>>     experimental purposes, but I'm not a seasoned F19 user. Some other
>>     members of this list are also members of test, but the reverse is
>>     certainly NOT true (most test members never even look at this list).
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>> Thank you! An answer I can reply happily with / to, rather than thinking
>> that, unlike what the website says, this group is not so helpful.
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>> If I am on the alpha program, why am I on 3.7x rather than 3.8x?
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> Ok, that's one we can probably handle. You can run newer systems on
> older kernels (many people do). It's not recommended but sometimes
> necessary if, for example, you have older hardware that newer kernels
> have orphaned for some reason.
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> The odds are that you have an option in your yum configuration that
> blocks upgrades in kernels (although I'd expect fedup to bypass that
> somehow). Look in your various /etc/yum* files and see if you have an
> "exclude=kernel*" thing in there.  Quick check (as root):
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>         # cd /etc
>         # grep -R exclude yum*
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> Look for "exclude=" lines that aren't commented

I don't get anything.
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