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

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed May 11 04:54:33 EDT 2016 

>> >> 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 :-/

We will be supporting RPi2/3 in F-24, I've got most of the bits in
place, just need the time to finish it off. We'll be supporting it
like the Pi foundation as a ARMv7 device. Single images for both
device (less confusion) and as it's only got 1Gb of RAM you don't get
any real advantage to 64 bit support and it's single buggy usb bus is
the likely the biggest bottleneck there anyway

>> >> 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.
>> >>>> --
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>> >>>>
>> >>>>
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