Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

[Richard Vickery]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote:

>
>
> Am 26.04.2013 01:03, schrieb Reindl Harald:
> > Am 25.04.2013 23:04, schrieb Richard Vickery:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> If I am on the alpha program, why am I on 3.7x rather than 3.8x?
> >>
> >> $ uname -rsvp
> >> Linux 3.7.2-204.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 16 16:22:52 UTC 2013 x86_64
> >
> > nobody knows why you do not update your kernel
> > 3.7.x is old, EOL and lacking a lot of security fixes
> > 3.8.x is in the stable repos for any supported release
> >
> > 3.8.8-203.fc18.x86_64
> > 3.8.8-102.fc17.x86_64
> > 3.9.0-0.rc8.git0.2.fc19.x86_64
>
> and if you updated you kernel / OS it is most likely in
> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and by whatever error not as default
>
> there is a line like set default="0" which can be modified or
> simply after select the newest kernel at boot a
> "yum reinstall kernel" after make sure the newest one works
> will remove any other kernel and with the next update all
> should be fine again, or simply use grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cf
> to re-generate the grub-config, at the begin without the -o param
> to take a look what would happen
>
> but you can for sure select the kernel at boot
>
> thanks to people who still thinks it is a good idea
> to hide the alternate kernels in the grub menu as default
> and force users to take action by pressing keys at the
> grub-stage of boot
>
> hence to not use linux alpha-releases if you are not firm
> with these things!
>



> Reindl:
>

I am now on 3.8 after # yum update kernel* earlier today..
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