Thanks for your honest and insiteful evaluation of our product. I'll be
looking for answers to the questions you posed this week. It's mostly
programmer stuff so I'm forwarding these questions/suggestions to them. I'll
try and get some answers to you by the end of the week. Thanks again for you
and your LUGs interest in Turbolinux.
--
Regards,
Paul D. Selby
TurboLinux
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Horst Lueck wrote: >
Paul, thanks for sending us the evaluation CDs. > > ELUG: > I tested the
workstation version last night on a system that is already > configured with 2
linux installations and a small DOS 6.22 partition. So > I had only limited
space and tried the minimal installation first(ca. > 170MB). >
> The installation interface is clean&lean (mo|or lean&clean), no fluffy
> stuff, mostly white on black and only color when needed. I liked that
> part.
> Another good thing is that you can choose from half a dozen kernel
> version (from 386 to '686) -- very nice :<) [just to clarify some e-chat
> earlier on that subject]
>
> At the end you are explicitly presented with the option of installing
> lilo on a floppy disk - which eased my mind since I was doing this all to
> a functional workstation. At that point I would like to see the option of
> creating a bootdisk too (just in case the kernel on the HD gets shot).
> Sure, you can do that all manually but for the beginner it would be a
> nice option. - [did you hear me Paul?]
>
> I had not much time and chances to do more testing (just using the
> minimal installation). So I ran gpm and minicom and noticed that the
> symbolic links for /dev/mouse and /dev/modem are 'missing' -- which can
> be both, good or bad (just another aspect of being lean&clean). In that
> context I am wondering why none of the distributions contains a little
> script that probes all your serial ports and assigns the correct one to
> mouse and modem? (on my machine they are mostly wrong after a fresh
> installation) - [did you hear me Paul?]
>
> So much at the moment -- it would be nice to see at least as many factual
> email messages on the mailing list about actually evaluating Turbolinux
> as we had talk about getting it here.
>
> - Horst.
