On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 at 01:12, Steffen Möller via Emc-developers
<[email protected]> wrote:

> The image boots fine, has a cute Tux with an endmill as a splash in the 
> upper-left quadrant of the early boot screen next to the typical ascii output.

Sadly not with UEFI in my experience, which is one reason it's not
fully released yet.

> I chose the graphical live CD. That started fine, except for a window popping 
> up with the message 'Plugin "(null)" could not  be loaded, do you want to 
> remove it from the xfce4-panel configuration'.

It would be an easy fix, if I had any idea which plugin it was.

> The keyboard layout is US with no immediate idea how to change it to 
> something else  - eventually found it, but no alternative layout is offered 
> in "Applications -> Settings -> Keyboard"

I would have expected that to be set by install language. But clearly not.

> The image is already quite large (~4GB) with a considerable amount of 
> documentation offered in the menus. I suggest to leave only the HTML of the 
> English with pointers to the online variants of other languages to reduce the 
> footprint of the image.

Is this really a problem? Can you still get a USB stick less than GB?

> And then, I wish the users of LinuxCNC would discuss how they want to use (or 
> see used) the LiveCD. Could we not possibly find some special interest group 
> that would want to shape it all a bit?

Are we not that special interest group?

-- 
atp
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