[Mageia-dev] Alpha-1 Comments

Tue Mar 15 01:35:04 CET 2011

Le mardi 15 mars 2011 à 00:46 +0100, JA Magallón a écrit :
+> Hi all...
+> 
+> First of all, nice work, people !! Hope all version 0 alphas were like
+> this...
+> 
+> I know I'm late for Alpha-2, but here are some comments about the install
+> of alpha-1, hope they are useful for beta-1 if they are not already fixed.
+> For the missing packages, probably they are things accessible through
+> repos once installed, but some I think they should be in the ISOs...
+> 
+> Here we go:
+> 
+> - lsb-release, it looks like the standard way of versioning...
+
+?
+
+> - Is the format of /etc/release stable yet or will it change ? If it is not,
+>   you could add 'zeroes' where they should go. IE, if you ever plan to do
+>   a Mageia 1.1 relase, please call this 1.0 instead of '1'.
+
+Well, I think so far that Mageia 1, what would it change ?
+
+> - could dmidecode be in the iso ?
+-> bug report :)
+
+> - same for gpm, could it be installed and enabled by default on the final
+>   installed system ?
+-> bug report too 
+
+> - missing gnome things, like gnome-themes or gnome-panel, but I suppose this
+>   is already fixed (btw, I seem to remember that Anne sent a URL for the
+>   Alpha2 package list, but I have not been able to recall it from my mailbox...)
+> - this is artwork matter, but, plzzz could you put the installer metal grid
+>   background as GDM/KDM background also ? I liiiiike it ;)
+> - a question: will mageia use systemd by default or not ?
+
+Not for the first release.
+But given the fact that Mandriva, Opensuse, Fedora are switching, and
+since it bring some needed cleaning and improvement, I do think this
+would be a good idea for mageia 2.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
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