Michael Wiktowy wrote:
Just adding my thoughts about the LiveCD so far:
- Two of my main use cases for a LiveCD are missing: checking the
memory and checking the hardware
- Where did memtest on the boot screen go?
It wasn't there in any test release of Fedora 7 afaik. File a request.
- There was some smolt GUI but now it seems to have vanished?
This hasn't been integrated with firstboot. It wont help check your
hardware.
- crond and atd were turned off but anacron seems to be left on
leading to some pretty severe slowdowns when that kicked in
File a bug report.
- Inclusion of some default xorg.conf file is messing with the proper
screen resolution autodetection. I have had two systems so far have
vastly reduced screen resolutions on booting the LiveCD and the
solution was to clobber xorg.conf and restart X and both were detected
perfectly after that.
File a bug report.
- Is yum upgrading from test4 to final going to be "supported"? I know
there was some talk of this earlier but haven't heard anything formal
lately.
Jesse keating or Will Woods, what was the final decision on this. Would
have been good to note this in the test 4 announcement.
> - I am very happy that NetworkManager now finally supports WPA without
any special tricks. I found that is was requiring some manual
intervention to switch between wired and wireless networks ... is that
because NMDispatcher is not enabled by default? Was that disabling by
deafult intentional?
Thats a bug too. Report it.
- Wireless has improved quite a lot. I have an assortment of those
little wifi USB dongles that I picked up for $20 each that work out of
the box now. I have a Netgear WG511T PCCard that doesn't work out of
the box. I think it has an atheros chipset. Is that one of those
non-free things that Ubuntu includes but Fedora doesn't?
Yes. Ubuntu uses proprietary madwifi driver. There is a free software
solution that was stalled for a long time due to potential legal issues
but that has been clearly recently by SFLC. Don't know the status of the
merge.
- I don't like the excessive amount of default folders in your home
directory. I agree that they should be consolidated somewhat. I would
suggest that Pictures, Video and Music should be put as a subdirectory
of Multimedia.
I would prefer that too.
- It is lovely that you are including links to Magnatune and Jamendo
in Rythmbox and Firefox ... the only problem is that their music is in
mp3 format which we cannot play (without some hoop jumping)
Trying to play crashed both times when trying to play Magnatune or
Jamendo songs.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434299
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434300
Afaik both of these have all the songs in ogg format too. Do file a
enhancement request for accessing them by default.
Rahul
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