Last week the nice guys at Fedora released the tenth (X in roman numerals) version of Fedora.
In the previous weekend, I already had installed the preview release on my notebook, as a clean install. It all worked perfectly, marking this version of Fedora the most interesting Linux Distribution release I ever tried.
Fast, beautiful (thanks to Byte-Code colleague Samuele Storari and his Solar theme), this version, while looking similar to older 9 release, feels definitely more polished and performing.
After the release, I yum-upgraded my home server (the Atom 330 I mentioned in the past), and it worked out really fine, with no issues at all. It’s a simpler environment (no gnome, and a initlevel at 3), but everything (iscsi, samba, DNS, DHCP) continued working as before.
On a side note, my iscsi disk is one of two USB disks attached to the server, so I was wondering how to ensure the block device naming and availability. After contemplating custom udev rules, all that was necessary was a look at /dev/disk. I discovered I can access block devices (like disks) through the /dev/disk/by-id, for example.
Really interesting.
Luca Botti at LinkedIn