It's 2am. I barely managed to squeak in my Coursera homework today. I'm still getting over my cold or making it worse at this point. Is there a better time to try out Fedora 18 alpha? Not likely.
Just like the F17 live cd there is no firmware for my wireless nic, which is annoying. Nautilus, the file manager, is refusing to mount my Windows and Linux partitions which is even more annoying. Still, my wireless problems are easily remedied by manually mounting things and grabbing the firmware off my f17 install. After reloading the driver for my nic I'm good to go.
Right away this has me salivating for the final f18 release. I really like some of the UI simplifications and some of the new applications sound quite interesting. The new installer is just plain beautiful. Unfortunately the installer isn't quite mature. I'm unable to do anything but use free space for an install.
Switching to the dvd installation media solves the firmware issue, which is good to know, and existing partitions even show up. But things still aren't fine grained enough for me to be able to specify which particular disk a partition is going to live on. Looks as though I'm going to have to wait for the beta at the very least. Given my inexperience with btrfs I don't exactly trust myself to come up with a sane kickstart file.
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