I downloaded the iso files for what appears to be the beta2 distribution
from the site in France. Installation went smoothly, although I found
the printer installation was slightly confusing. I selected the CUPs
option for my Epson Stylus Color 800 second time around and it worked.
It looks good but I have a couple of observations (I didn't get as far
as testing out individual packages.
1) I can get pictures of different allowed users for selection prior to
selection of the graphic interface (kde & gnome etc) and for user log
in. However I can only get the system to accept "root"
If i try to log on as another user (at the GUI) I get a message which
says:
" some error setting up inter-process communications for KDF. The
message returned by the system was : networksList argument is null.
please check that the "dcopserver" program is running"
I tried to run the system from the text input ie without the graphics
and the same thing occurs.
The problem is also the same if Gnome is selected instead of KDE with
the graphics interface.
2) I use a cable modem to access the internet. On setting up the system
for networking an error occurred if I tried to select "cable modem" and
eth0 as my network interfaces. I could get round the error by selecting
to configure the internal network for both of my network cards. On
looking at the network configuration in Drakconf/ Network it looks OK,
but there is no communication with the internet.
( This is disappointing as I have never had a problem with setting up to
communicate with the internet using any other version of Linux).
Bernard
