[Mageia-dev] Alpha-1 Comments

Tue Mar 15 02:06:01 CET 2011

On Monday, March 14, 2011 05:35:04 pm Michael Scherer wrote:
+> 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.
+Agree
+-- 
+Thomas
+