Btrfs question for Fedora 33 beta. How can I add nocow to /var

2020-10-15 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
I am looking to some performance considerations for the /etc/fstab btrs default config generated by anaconda. It appears to have created a subvol for root (root00) and for home (home00). I would like to put in /opt with it's subvol, and to migrate the /var to a subvol where I can specify

Re: Btrfs question for Fedora 33 beta. How can I add nocow to /var

2020-10-15 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
I forgot to mention, that one way tI can isolate /var is to use a separate partition. Ditto for /opt ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Btrfs question for Fedora 33 beta. How can I add nocow to /var

2020-10-25 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Hi Chris, This weekend past, I did create /opt and /var as subvolumes. For the empty /opt, it was easy. For /var, it took the live ISO to help with moving directory /var to subvolume /var I also intend to do the same with /sys on this, my beta system, Later this week I will install the

Re: zlib-ng as a compat replacement for zlib

2023-09-02 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Thank you.  Leslie Satenstein On Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 09:29:36 a.m. EDT, Daniel Alley wrote: Yeah, the Zstd default of 3 is tuned to be roughly on par with alternatives but much faster.  To get better compression than gzip you generally need to go to higher levels. 

Re: Lastpass-cli license correction

2023-09-02 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
When you are back with Fedora 38,39,40, I will register and do a contribution payment. Leslie Satenstein On Friday, September 1, 2023 at 01:15:14 p.m. EDT, Robert-André Mauchin wrote: Hello Fedoreans an others, Lastpass-cli license will be corrected from GPL-2.0-only to:

Re: F39 candidate composes coming - here's the plan

2023-10-25 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Hi Adam, are bugs related to Fedora gnome that I posted on the forum ignored?  I and a few others have smaller / older graphics cards. They are new enough to work with the USB type cable. On all my Fedora versions, (38-40),  Wayland gnome, beginning around 5 October, 2023, began locking up.

Re: Orphaning all my packages

2023-10-03 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Hi  Todd Zullinger Got your message! Leslie Satenstein    PS. I share your views.  I am a senior, age 82.7 (Born Jan 1941), and while I did a great deal of QA / Testing,I am very disappointed in the direction that both the Europeans and Americans are heading.  There is, underway now, a

Re: Live USB iso boot not working since Fedora 37, still broken in 39 Beta

2023-10-05 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Please look at 2241955 – Fedora 39 Wayland initialization code has something missing -- my system crashes | | | | 2241955 – Fedora 39 Wayland initialization code has something missing --... | | | Leslie Satenstein On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 04:51:35 p.m. EDT,

Re: [Test-Announce] 2023-10-16 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

2023-10-15 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
14 Oct version Everything.iso anaconda failed on my system at the step where it has to create the network setup for the target Gnome system. Up to that point, installation went well.  Same place for workstation setup. Sorry, can't seem to post elsewhere, Someone please Leslie Satenstein

Re: Dropping of sshd.socket unit

2023-08-21 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Sounds good!  Leslie Satenstein On Monday, August 21, 2023 at 05:08:06 a.m. GMT-4, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Do, 17.08.23 08:25, Chris Adams (li...@cmadams.net) wrote: > Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering said: > > Yes, and if this is not what you want, then disable the

Re: F39 proposal: FontAwesome6 (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-03-11 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Hi Developers. Because of some issues, I cannot log into the site to provide an improvement request for Fedora. I present a discussion idea, and a suggestion. I would like to suggest a change for the /etc/fstab to replace the use of UUID=   with PARTUUID=... The Benefit

Re: Proposal: drop delta rpms (for real this time)

2023-02-21 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Got it.  Leslie Satenstein On Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 03:48:23 p.m. EST, Matthew Miller wrote: I was asked to weigh in on https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7215 as a priority. Last time we talked about this we didn't really get anywhere...

Re: F39 proposal: Man-pages-ru Retirement (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-04-29 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Off Topic I have been developing C code with Fedora for about 20 years.  I know by heart, the usual such as stdlib, malloc, ... etc.But on occasion, when I see some code with a typo for the type definition    (example misspelled.h).  I would like to be able to enter   "man.stdio.h"  or "man

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-12 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
SUSE has also jumped in to say they will provide an alternative, but compatible Linux to RH. Leslie Satenstein On Tuesday, July 11, 2023 at 06:49:38 a.m. GMT-4, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: Oracle has (finally – the community projects Rocky and Alma were much quicker to

Re: F40 Change: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide)

2023-07-07 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
>From what I read, the metrics accumulation has an option to turn off the >collection, as well as the transmission Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 8:53 p.m., Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Thu, Jul 6 2023 at 11:08:15 PM +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > As a non-user

Re: LibreOffice packages

2023-06-02 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
No LibreOffice, no continuation with Fedora. LO better be there with F39. Without it, all you have is Firefox. It is not enough to keep Fedora Diehards from jumping to another popular distribution. Leslie Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 8:07 p.m., Sandro wrote: On

Re: Mock v5.0 released (and mock-core-configs v39)

2023-08-10 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Will the current fixes allow test installations of the workspaces.iso? True Ivan test using the everything.iso, but we do want the installation programs to work fully What is stopping workspace installs is: gnome.display.manager  Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 3:22

Re: Red Hat & Fedora -- largely stepping out of this ecosystem

2023-06-30 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
I agree with RH's decision. I write software and release it as gpl3, source, it and all build Makefiles! I give it out, and to those, I ask, only to provide me with bug reports or some patch ideas to make the offering better. What should I do, if the person I gave the software to, removes

Re: Red Hat & Fedora -- largely stepping out of this ecosystem

2023-06-30 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Hi Leon. I replied inline. Leslie Satenstein On Friday, June 30, 2023 at 11:16:48 a.m. EDT, Leon Fauster via devel wrote: Am 30.06.23 um 15:41 schrieb Leslie Satenstein via devel: >    What should I do, if the person I gave the software to, removes my >    cop

Fw: Two Years of Fedora Releases

2023-06-23 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Hello from Montreal, Canada I have been a Fedora user for about 20 years.  In all that time, it was known that the frequency of Fedora updates are as you described. However, I just want to remind you that when a new release of Fedora is published, that Fedora also provides a utility (a dnf

Re: F39 proposal: BiggerESP (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-10 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Leslie Satenstein    Some end-user feedback. I believe in the KISS approach (Keep It Simple S). I would consider /boot as a btrfs volume, and not a sub-volume, but why bother? For me, it being a btrfs partition is definitely not a priority or urgency, as I use rsync for

Re: F39 proposal: Fedora Images on Azure (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2023-05-11 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
I like the idea. I will definitely go for it, in a show of hands or vote. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 2:16 p.m., Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2023-04-21 at 13:49 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Fedora_Images_On_Azure > >

Re: Mass rebuild: git push --no-verify

2024-01-20 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
AgreeThank you. See below Leslie Satenstein On Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 01:35:13 p.m. EST, kevin wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 09:15:18AM -0700, Jerry James wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 4:50 AM Tomas Hrcka wrote: > > This is not a good idea. Because of a few

Re: Introduction

2024-02-07 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Thank you.  Leslie Satenstein On Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 06:08:37 p.m. EST, Luis Correia wrote: Hi, I'm a long time Fedora user and used to help develop the Ralink Wireless driver (rt2x00) that's been present in the kernel for a long time. I'm now entering the process of

Re: openQA update test backlog - now clearing

2024-02-19 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Adam Please checkout bugzilla  2264943 I seem to have issues to post this bug where it can be reviewed on time for pre-release. Leslie Satenstein The bug readsBug 2264943 - Fedora40 anaconda Beta is not propagating keyboard selection to target system (edit) Description of problem:  I

Re: F40 Change Proposals Requiring Infra Changes - Deadline Today

2023-12-20 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Sometimes it is overly burdensome to want to submit a suggestion. I have run the Rawhide Fedora 40 beta of Dec 19, 2023 and would like to propose an additional radio button for anaconda installer. There are currently three options, of which the third is not yet available. I would like to

Re: Possible deprecation/removal of Initial Setup from Fedora

2023-11-24 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
I am a devout anaconda bigot, and  I exclusively use the Everything.iso with it. Of course, I use it via terminal mode. A feature I relish in anaconda, is the ability to manage disks and partitions.(using the right most radio button)My system has 2 SSD and 6 disks, and with anaconda, I

Re: Possible deprecation/removal of Initial Setup from Fedora

2023-11-27 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
I am not sure of the difference between text mode and graphical mode, except that I am an end-user of anaconda,and I use it via the Everything.iso.  Therein, anaconda is a mixed mode, with text / graphical for partition management(creating, mounting,deleting) and graphical mode for application

Rawhide Beta Everything.iso and other ISOs -- btrfs -- serious issue

2024-02-05 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
I am not registered as an official test person. But I have been using Fedora for the past 20 years. I have been doing some tests with  KDE,Gnome,xfce (all Fedora Rawhide distros). With the Everything.iso, here is an example of a problem I have a previous kde/gnome/kde installation that has

Re: [Test-Announce] Re: Fedora 40 Candidate RC-1.12 Available Now! GRUB ISSUE

2024-04-11 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Yesterday, Nov10, a set of "Final candidate" for Fedora 40 was posted.  Adam  requested that we test it to the ends and make sure all is OK. So, I suppose positively, that tomorrow, Friday, we will know if Fedora 40 is a go/nogo. For me, as a single distro to be installed, it is ready to go.

Re: Looking for people to be stewards of rpminspect-data-fedora

2024-04-10 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
I was noticing a missing file, titled a logfile, (Who did the inspection when, and was it OK) Leslie Satenstein On Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 10:05:34 a.m. EDT, David Cantrell wrote: On 4/9/24 17:14, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 01:55:41PM -0400, David

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora Linux 40 Final is GO Need to fix up for good grub.cfg Cant install Workstation and KDE on same system.

2024-04-18 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Hi Guys, With my testing, I could not install  one copy of Fedora40gnome and then on the same system the copy of Fedora40KDE. Whatever came second, has a signature for grub2-mkconfig, that causes the first F40 menuentrys to be replaced by the latter.  My computer bios shows the same duplicates.

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora Linux 40 Final is GO Need to fix up for good grub.cfg Cant install Workstation and KDE on same system.

2024-04-18 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
:45:35 p.m. EDT, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/18/24 12:42, Leslie Satenstein via devel wrote: > With my testing, I could not install  one copy of Fedora40gnome and then > on the same system the copy of Fedora40KDE. > > Whatever came second, has a signature for grub2-mkconfig,

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-05-05 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
AdamI believe in the KISS principle.  Do a simplification change that does it for the great number of new Fedora users who are coming from other desktop/laptop/business systems. Linux is gaining #users.  Let us make their migration to Fedora for end-user people as simple as possible for this

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-03 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Perhaps something like the "Everything.iso" could be top-leveled on the website, to include Workstation, KDE, et al,   in their full "Everything.iso" details. That will let me decide, beforehand, what it is that I want to download. Keep the individual iso-webpage relationship simple, referring

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-03 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Hi Adam, I lived through the 2011 period, and at that time the number of people available for  KDE software support was insufficient. In an earlier response I suggested that a single website is where we should be focusing more info about the various isos.  We don't need a separate set of web

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-03 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Topic change for one minute With the Everything.iso, there is a recovery option, which presents questions pertaining to a Fedora installation needing a security scan (eg systemctl daemon-reload). Has anyone succeeded in the recovery script working to completion?  I raise the question here, as

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-05 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
I am an old geezer with about 60 years of IT experience, from mainframe to cellphone.I am self-convinced that dropping gnome for KDE as a default would be BAD.Why?Today, everyone who ones a cellphone, has on his phone a set of icons. Some are there by default, some are there as extra

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

2024-04-04 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
There is, if you add 1 extension, a category menu.  That is the menu that is similar to other desktop interfaces such as Budgie, XFCE, and other. Leslie Satenstein On Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 08:03:13 a.m. EDT, Stephen Smoogen wrote: On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 at 04:38, Vít

Re: Fedora Linux 40 Beta Released

2024-03-27 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Check outIndex of /compose/branched | | | | Index of /compose/branched | | | Leslie Satenstein On Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at 04:51:18 a.m. EDT, Barry wrote: > On 26 Mar 2024, at 15:09, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > I think it was being edited when you looked? > >

Re: F41 Change Proposal: Anaconda as native Wayland application (System Wide)

2024-05-31 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
Sounds good!  Leslie Satenstein On Friday, May 31, 2024 at 11:05:14 a.m. EDT, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2024-05-31 at 13:36 +0200, Jiri Konecny wrote: > To my knowledge it shouldn't be. Fedora Workstation is already running > on Wayland by default for quite some time and

Re: F41 Change Proposal: Make OpenSSL distrust SHA-1 signatures by default (system-wide)

2024-06-10 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
If you do not mind, I did a bit of touch-up to the opening paragraphs.  A hashing function takes as input, a piece of input data, and maps it to a fixed-size output (20 bytes in case of SHA-1). Cryptographic hash functions need to satisfy several more properties, and the one we are concerned