Greetings, Looks good, but here's a few things that I noticed when installing beta2 on my Sony VAIO 505 (one of the thin little fellas):
In the description the Paranoid level in "Choose security level", it
reads "Paranoid: We base on the previous level, yet now the system is
entirely closed. Security features are at their maximum." The first
couple of words are a little awkward -- perhaps, "Based on the previous
level, but the system is entirely closed..." I don't know -- what do
you think?
And in the Help menu below, the "expenses of easiness of use" might
want to be changed to "expense of ease of use", as it currently reads
as ..."However, a higher security level is generally obtained at the
expenses of easiness of use."...
It might be too late for this, but I was initially doing an install over
NFS. On the NFS server, I had the isos mounted via loopback on
/mnt/tmp1 and /mnt/tmp2 (the first disc being on tmp1 and the second on
the latter). Everything was going perfectly fine until it reached the
point in time where it was trying to install the packages on the second
disc. Could there be an option when installing over NFS to enable more
than one install source?
When setting up a network printer, selecting the postscript driver
for the HP 2100M, and having it print out a standard test page, not only
did it print out that test page, but spooled eight *more* pages with
random chars on it. It would have spooled more, but I didn't see the
need to let it keep on keeping on for the sake of testing purposes.
And finally, when logging into X for the first time, the default icons
were a bit disorganised (I don't know if they are on anyone else's
display, but this is running 4.2.0 at 1024x768 and 16bit on a generic LCD.
And I know it's not the fault of Mandrake, but that battery monitor on
the gnome panel sure is ugly when there's more than one battery in the
laptop (see attached screenshot).
Anyway, those are my observations with a quick 8.2beta2 install. If
there's anything on which I can provide more information, please just
drop me a line.
Cheers,
-Charlie
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