From 94169c28384d760ce92deb6033f465bb42226e55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Bokoc Date: Nov 27 2018 20:08:26 +0000 Subject: 202 - ZRAM support for ARM --- diff --git a/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc b/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc index b904914..46341a8 100644 --- a/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc +++ b/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc @@ -6,17 +6,25 @@ include::{partialsdir}/entities.adoc[] == Update comps to use Python 3 -Multiple package groups have been updated to use `python3` packages instead of `python2`. +Multiple package groups have been updated to use [package]`python3` packages instead of [package]`python2`. The list of groups is: -* `python-classroom` -* `engineering-and-scientific` -* `development-libs` -* `cloud-management` -* `font-design` -* `mysql` -* `robotics-suite` -* `authoring-and-publishing` -* `electronic-lab` - -Also, the `python-web` package group has been removed from comps. +* [package]`python-classroom` +* [package]`engineering-and-scientific` +* [package]`development-libs` +* [package]`cloud-management` +* [package]`font-design` +* [package]`mysql` +* [package]`robotics-suite` +* [package]`authoring-and-publishing` +* [package]`electronic-lab` + +Also, the [package]`python-web` package group has been removed from comps. + +== ZRAM support for ARM images + +Previous releases of Fedora for ARM (`Aarch64`) systems enabled a small amount of swap space by default. +This was generally a good thing, however in some cases using swap on ARM can cause problems such as heavy wear on SD cards due to excess use of wear leveling. +Fedora 29 enables ZRAM in order to mitigate this and enable more memory on ARM single-board computers (SBCs) by compressing a part of the RAM and using it as a swap space. +This provides better performance and reliability on such devices, which in turn provides better user experience. +ZRAM is enabled on all ARM images by default.