Fedora 7

[Gianluca Sforna]

On 1/5/07, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> On 05.01.2007 03:59, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 00:25 +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
>  > [...]
> >> <snip>
> >> Nothing about anaconda?
> >> In particular, the partitioning phase is (more or less) the same since
> >> FC1 and not having something in place to resize an existing (most
> >> likely ntfs) partition is a big drawback when compared to other
> >> distros.
> > Handling resize nicely is going to require a bit of rethinking and
> > reworking of the entire partitioning interface (not to mention the
> > backend code).  Given resource constraints, there's just not really a
> > good way to get to something that's feature complete without losing big
> > pieces in time for the feature freeze at test2.
> >
> > It's definitely something on the bigger picture roadmap for anaconda,
> > but this just isn't going to be the release where it's reasonable for it
> > to happen.
>
> Just FYI: Vista will afaik be able to resize NTFS filesystems on it own.

I was not aware. thanks.

> Thus you should be able to free some space on a hard-disk with Vista and
> install Linux to it. So I'm wondering if we need the resize-feature in
> the future as much as we do today.

Given that, I guess there will be less pressure to add that feature.
However, I think it's global value is still quite the same, because it
gives users the ability to install Fedora on a brand new PC without
intermediate steps in an external environment: just insert the install
DVD and boot.