On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 19:26 -0400, 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?
Hasn't been on any of the Fedora Live images. I can definitely see it
making sense. If you file a bug against the LiveCD component, I'll look
and see if it can be done easily (shouldn't be bad at all)
- There was some smolt GUI but now it seems to have vanished?
The GUI has been split out and isn't being installed by default as it
could still use a little bit more time.
- crond and atd were turned off but anacron seems to be left on
leading to some pretty severe slowdowns when that kicked in
Aha, good catch. Added to the config. Thanks.
- 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.
There is no xorg.conf included by default; there is one auto-generated
by system-config-display at boot time, but that should be fine (it
should match what would have gotten generated by anaconda). Can you
file a bug against X with the X config and X log attached?
- 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.
We're doing everything we can to help ensure this works. If there are
problems that people notice upgrading to rawhide from test4 in the
run-up to F7 final, please file bugs and make them block F7Blocker.
Also, cc me if you'd like and we can try to make sure they get fixed.
- 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?
No, NMDispatcher just runs custom scripts... arguably it should be
enabled by default, but if so, the bug should be that they shouldn't be
separate initscripts.
- The LiveCD runs quite slowly on my 850 MHz laptop with 256 MB RAM
but it does run OK. That might have been due to the cpuspeed service
being enabled.
More just that things are slow with 256 megs of RAM I think :(
Especially as we don't enable found swaps on the live images to avoid
making changes to running systems[1]
- 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)
They both provide things in ogg which is a good part of why we're
linking to them.
Jeremy