[Server-devel] Fwd: Announcing the release of Fedora 24 Beta for aarch64!

Tue May 10 20:54:54 EDT 2016

On May 10, 2016 7:30 PM, "Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
> > On May 10, 2016 3:21 PM, "Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> We do have initial pine64 support, I plan to improve it more for GA and
> >> have a disk image for use.
> >
> > Great News!
> >
> > Tangentially: are there opinions emerging on the physical
ruggedizability of
> > 2GB Pine64 v. 1GB RPi3 (incl WiFi) for developing world education, and
harsh
> > environmental/ergonomic conditions, as more people start banging on
both?
>
> I'm sure I've said it before, it's not high quality. My alpha board
> arrived bent (still works somehow) but the hackaday review [1] sums up
> my opinion quite well. This isn't a robust device, and with up to 2Gb
> of RAM there's a lot more ARMv7 devices that offer better value for
> money. At a max of 2Gb of RAM a 64 bit chip offers absolutely ZERO
> advantage and it's built for a price and I'm sorry but "harsh
> environment" is not anywhere in that. Honestly a BeagleBone would do
> better and has much better build and likely better performance for not
> much more price (yes, I do class double the price in this class as not
> much more)
>
> [1] http://hackaday.com/2016/04/21/pine64-the-un-review/

Fascinating, Thanks!

(Since I'm working with Haitians who cannot pay double the $35 price of
RPi3...we'll be looking more seriously at ruggedizing the official
Raspberry Pi 3 for now...and it's unofficial community support perhaps most
important.)

Knowing we cannot possibly prevent all failures, but rather hoping that
field  production use today...affects RPi4/5/6 as a family, increasingly
growing up from rich-world gadgeteers' basements........to
globally-relevant nanoservers operationalizable for a billion people who
demand to be relevant.....even IF they will never in their lifetimes get a
$15/hour minimum wage :-/

> >> Peter
> >>
> >> On 10 May 2016 18:44, "Adam Holt" <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Not sure the 64-bit implications of this for RPi3 and Pine64, but FYI.
> >>>
> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >>> From: "Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> >>> Date: May 10, 2016 1:34 PM
> >>> Subject: Announcing the release of Fedora 24 Beta for aarch64!
> >>> To: <arm at lists.fedoraproject.org>,
> >>> <devel-announce at lists.fedoraproject.org>,
> >>> <announce at lists.fedoraproject.org>, <secondary at lists.fedoraproject.org
>
> >>> Cc:
> >>>
> >>>> The Fedora 24 Beta for aarch64 is here, on schedule for our planned
June
> >>>> final
> >>>> release. For Beta we have added Cloud and Docker base images.
> >>>> Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site:
> >>>>
> >>>> -   Get Fedora 24 Beta Server: make use of the very latest
server-based
> >>>>     technologies available in the open source community
> >>>>
> >>>>
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/24_Beta/Server/aarch64/
> >>>>
> >>>> -   Get Fedora 24 Beta Cloud: build scale-out computing and utilize
the
> >>>> next
> >>>>     generation of container deployment technology
> >>>>
> >>>>
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/24_Beta/CloudImages/aarch64/
> >>>>
> >>>>
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/24_Beta/Docker/aarch64/images/
> >>>>
> >>>> What is the Beta release?
> >>>> -------------------------
> >>>>
> >>>> The Beta release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 24's
> >>>> editions in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by
> >>>> the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs from the Alpha
> >>>> version. When most of these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release
> >>>> available. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a very strong
> >>>> resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of
Fedora
> >>>> 24 is expected in June. We need your help to make Fedora 24 the best
> >>>> yet. Please take some time to download and try out the Beta and make
> >>>> sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a
> >>>> bug, please report it – every bug you uncover is a chance to improve
the
> >>>> experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. This is a great
> >>>> opportunity for non-programmers to contribute back to fedora.
Together,
> >>>> we can make Fedora rock-solid. We have a culture of adding new
features
> >>>> to software and pushing fixes to the upstream developers at the same
> >>>> time. This means your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but
> >>>> Linux and free software on the whole.
> >>>>
> >>>> -   <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/Schedule>
> >>>> -   <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report>
> >>>>
> >>>> Fedora-Wide Changes
> >>>> -------------------
> >>>>
> >>>> Under the hood, glibc has moved to 2.23. This update includes better
> >>>> performance, increased security, bugfixes, improvements to POSIX
> >>>> compliance, and additional locales. The new library is backwards
> >>>> compatible with the version of glibc that was shipped in Fedora 23.
> >>>> We've also updated the system compiler to GCC 6 and rebuilt all of
our
> >>>> packages with it, providing greater code optimization and improved
> >>>> program error catching.
> >>>>
> >>>> Server
> >>>> ------
> >>>>
> >>>> Fedora 24 beta server edition has also been more streamlined.
> >>>> Unnecessary
> >>>> packages were removed and the installer has a smaller footprint.
FreeIPA
> >>>> 4.3, an integrated security information management solution is now
> >>>> included. The installation of replicas is streamlined by adding a
> >>>> replica promotion method for new installs. A new topology plugin has
> >>>> also been added to this version of FreeIPA that automatically manages
> >>>> new replication segment creation. An effective replica topology
> >>>> visualization tool is now available in the webUI.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cloud
> >>>> -----
> >>>>
> >>>> We are working hard to make Fedora the best platform for
containerized
> >>>> applications, from base Fedora container images to a full-featured
> >>>> platform as a service to run and manage them. To meet this goal, we
are
> >>>> packaging OpenShift Origin so it is easy to deploy. OpenShift Origin
is
> >>>> a distribution of Kubernetes, a container cluster manager from
Google.
> >>>> It is optimized for enterprise application development and
deployment.
> >>>> Origin makes it easy for developers to get started building
applications
> >>>> in containers and for operators to manage them.
> >>>>
> >>>> Issues and Details
> >>>> ------------------
> >>>>
> >>>> This is a Beta release. As such, we expect that you may encounter
bugs
> >>>> or missing features. To report issues encountered during testing,
> >>>> contact the Fedora QA team via the mailing list or in #fedora-qa on
> >>>> Freenode. As testing progresses, common issues are tracked on the
Common
> >>>> F24 Bugs page.
> >>>>
> >>>> -   <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F24_bugs>
> >>>>
> >>>> For tips on reporting a bug effectively, read "how to file a bug
> >>>> report."
> >>>>
> >>>> -   <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report>
> >>>>
> >>>> Release Schedule
> >>>> ----------------
> >>>>
> >>>> The full release schedule is available on the Fedora wiki:
> >>>>
> >>>> -   <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/Schedule>
> >>>>
> >>>> The current schedule calls for a beta release towards the beginning
of
> >>>> May, and the final release in early June. Be aware that these dates
are
> >>>> development targets. Some projects release on a set date regardless
of
> >>>> feature completeness or bugs; others wait until certain thresholds
for
> >>>> functionality or testing are met. Fedora uses a hybrid model, with
> >>>> milestones subject to adjustment. This allows us to make releases
with
> >>>> new features and newly-integrated and updated upstream software while
> >>>> also retaining high quality.
> >>>> --
> >>>> announce mailing list
> >>>> announce at lists.fedoraproject.org
> >>>>
> >>>>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
> >>>
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