Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

[Bill Davidsen]

Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 03/25/2014 12:10 PM, Powell, Michael wrote:
>> I disagree; if a user is presented with the following filesystem choices,
>> btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, JFS, reiser4, reiserFS, and ZFS, and each is
>> presented equally with a single paragraph describing its benefits, unless the
>> user has prior knowledge about what is the best choice for the intended
>> installation goal, they're most likely going to spend a great deal of time
>> reading each paragraph. If you simplify the choices to 4 instead of 8, the
>> user has less paragraphs to read and can make a decision faster.
>
> Agreed.  However, it might be a good compromise to list only the most common
> selections, with a button marked Advanced Options (There's probably a better
> label, but if so, I can't think of it right now.) containing the rest.
> Beginners will, most likely, avoid that, but those who need/want the more
> specialized file systems will still have access to them.

This is absolutely just what is needed. Any hope it could get into fc21? If I 
could pick three things for some future release, they would be:
   - better install for controlling allocation of storage by device
     (but keep the serial number visible!!)
   - install without using network, even if available
     (because slow nets and/or per-byte charges prohibit upgrade to current)
   - a more minimal "minimal install" would be nice.

Anyway, having access to full control, somewhere easy to find, would probably 
solve many complaints. Thanks for listening.

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