"Philip Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> (2) configure the mouse: is this really necessary? after all, > you are already using the mouse to manage the installation (?!). Detection might be wrong or missing some buttons, etc. If you're not in the "expert" path, this step would not be shown. [...] > (3) CD check-list: the 3rd CD is wrongly named 'international': > there doesn't seem to be anything specially international about it > & the ISO is named 'CD3' on the FTP site. It's full of i18n & locale packages. It's named like that so that en/us people need not to download it. > (4) package selection: there's no box description for 'Scientific Wk Sta'. There is no infinite space :-). > (9) services: the descriptions should be much more explicit: > eg what does 'daytime' do? what is the difference between 'ntp' & 'xntp' > (i have xntp working successfully, while ntp seems to have problems)? It's not always easy to get good descriptions. If you have some, please contribute them! > (12) X server: it did not test my set-up (NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR generic, > Samsung SM 550s, 1024x768, 16M colors), tho' it's working ok now. Some X servers are marked to not be tested during installation, because they are unstable when running together with the running FBdev X server of the installation. > (13) 3D acceleration: whatever does this refer to? > why would 3.3.6 give 3D, but not 4.2.0, and why is it "experimental"? There is no free software 3d acceleration for nvidia in XFree-4, while there was an experimental one in XFree-3.3. > at least, give a more detailed explanation of the choices here. > some of these items haven't changed since 8.0 . > i rather suspect that all the media praise for improved Linux installations > has made the developers too complacent re some of the hoary details. Well, it's just that we prefer playing Quake3 than working. > and of course, thanx to all the people who do the work. Thanks :-). -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
