[Mageia-dev] Release Notes - reminder

Wed May 25 17:58:49 CEST 2011

On 25 May 2011 17:44, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Op woensdag 25 mei 2011 11:34:16 schreef Anne nicolas:
+>> Hi there
+>>
+>> Ahmad has been working on release notes for some days now and updated
+>> it massively yesterday
+>> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=iso1:mageia1_release_notes
+>>
+>> Please have a look on it and add anything that could complete it.
+>> Deadline is thursday evening
+>>
+>> Cheers
+>
+> You should mention 2010.2 for mdv upgrades as well, even though it is exactly
+> the same as 2010.1 (which still quite some people do not know).
+>
+
+I don't recognise 2010.2 as a new release, it's a revamped 2010.1 AFAICS.
+
+> regarding virt-manager: the XEN part of virtualisation is completely untested
+> afaik, my tests with kernel-xen didn't work well, but it could have been
+> hardware issues... perhaps we should remove that part in the text.
+>
+
+Perhaps we should check first if it's a problem on your box or a general one.
+
+> is WINE 1.3.0 a development version? i thought we primarily released stable
+> versions of packages?
+>
+
+You thought wrongly; we've always followed the development branch of
+wine (in both mdv and mga).
+
+>
+> regarding http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mageia1:errata :
+>  - a link to it would be nice
+>  - the virtualbox 3 host issue seems to be solved. (i've mentioned this a few
+> times already) on my vbox3 host system (mandriva 2010.1), i can successfully
+> install a mageia, and it seems not to have any troubles:
+>    - copy pasting inside/outside works well
+>    - mouse integration no problem
+>    - it seems to automatically disable guest resizing, but using xrandr on
+> the guest works (but only with "normal" resolutions)
+>
+> ===> as such, i wouldn't put it on the errata anymore...
+>
+
+"You" put it in the errata to begin with, so remove it if you think
+it's not useful any more.
+
+IMHO, either users upgrade the host to 4.0.x or use the upstream .iso
+to install the guest additions (the upstream .iso would compile the
+necessary modules for all recent and old X server versions.. etc).
+
+> the Beta2 had a successfull install, but later it gave instability issues;
+> which i couldn't reproduce with RC.
+>
+
+[...]
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+