If you are not interested in Rawhide basics, please hit the delete button now. This post is aimed at people who may not know what Rawhide really is, or how it gets updated, etc.
The link below is a Dropbox link, showing a list of packages installed on my computer.
https://paper.dropbox.com/published/Status-of-my-Rawhide-Workstation-install...
My Rawhide computer has been performing nominally, ( without hiccups ) since I installed the unofficial iso.
This list shows that some of the packages come from Anaconda. I assume, ( feel free to correct me ), that those packages have not changed, since I did the install. Right ??
Also note there are two different suffixes in the filenames "fc32," and "fc33." Obviously, fc33 are the packages that have been updated and re-labeled to show they are going to be in the upcoming Version 33 of Fedora. What those suffixes actually do in the server, meaning as to what repo they are in, I will let someone else explain all that. I assume those packages with fc32 suffix are identical to what you have if you are using fc32 Workstation. For example, the package "bash" is apparently fc32.
As you can see, most of the important packages are updated in someway and have the fc33 suffix. Meaning lots of hardwork has been done by people. Thank you to those volunteers, etc.
Note that there is one package "fc31," that being "trousers."
As you can see, the kernel is the latest rc7 available. Since 5.7.0 will go stable in a few days, I assume that the next kernel I get will be 5.8.0.rc0.git### or something like that, or at least that will be the kernel on my install, in about two weeks. Feel free to correct me.
Unfortunately, I have had little access to my computer in the past month, due to not having a stable place to reside, and that will likely be the case for me this summer.
I am looking forward to reading about how Fedora performs on the upcoming Raspberry Pi 4, with 8 GB of RAM.
Another sad note, is that due to my financial situation, I had to downgrade to a less expensive phone service provider, and in doing so I ended up with a refurbished iPhone. I have never used an iPhone before, and now I am doing most of my internet needs on the iPhone. Actually, I am just using the hotspot on it, and still doing most of my stuff on my old Android Alcatel 3V.
Cheers,
David Locklear Novice Rawhide user
P.S. I would like to give a shout out to my buddy, Flannigan. In all my 25 plus years of using the internet, he is the first person I have bumped into on the internet, that we knew from other hobbies, other than Linux. I will let him explain that if he wants.
David,
I recently purchased a new Pi 4 w/8GB in a CanaKit. That kit contains absolutely everything I needed to stand up a Pi 4b w/8GB and 32-bit Rasbpian/Debian (10) - with the exception of an HDMI flat panel monitor. The red & white plastic USB keyboard and mouse in the kit are as cheesey as they come, but they work. Fortunarely a Logitech Cordless Desktop also works perfectly with its little Logi USB dongle. And the WiFi DHCP also works just fine.
I haven't quite confirmed the bad news yet, and that's that the Fedora-Workstation-32-1.6.aarch64.raw.xz image cannot be installed on the Pi 4b. Something was reportedly still incomplete upstream in this April 24 release. That's a shame because I despise Rasbpian. The only promising lead I've found is https://medium.com/ironhaul/installing-64-bit-fedora-on-thIte-raspberry-pi-4....
The author, Miki Shapiro reports "Sadly, Fedora does not currently support [as of April 5] the Pi 4b, its u-boot boot loader doesn't fit the Pi 4b like a glove, and the kernels as of this moment do not run stable on the Pi 4b model or support some of its hardware." He goes on to say "This guide will show how to put the above together in minimally working order. Because I need to repeat shi a lot, I cut some Ansible code to do it all."
I've been threatening to dig into Ansible, and this sounds like the right project to begin with. The Pi 4b with 8GB of RAM finally has enough real memory to graduate from a toy to a tiny workstation class. Furthermore, I believe I will be able to install Fedora 32 on and boot it from a USB 3.1 thumb drive rather than a microSD card, very significantly improving the r/w speeds for the OS itself. As of July 21 04:22 there's a Fedora-Server-dvd-aarch64-Rawhide-20200721.n.0.iso that may have three critical months worth of catch-up improvements from upstream.
I won't be able to get working on this until next week at the earliest. If you can take this info and give us a breakthrough before then, all virtual beers will pour your way.
--Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
-----Original Message----- From: David dlocklear01@gmail.com Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Relating to Rawhide Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 13:07:25 -0500 ... I am looking forward to reading about how Fedora performs on the upcoming Raspberry Pi 4, with 8 GB of RAM. ...Cheers,
David Locklear Novice Rawhide user