some thoughts, auto-login: imho it's a good thing (for home users) (/me hates pidgins' keyring thingy) note: prolly you know but: suse's (and ubuntu's etc) openoffice is *not* openoffice it's "openoffice novell's edition" http://go-oo.org
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Just playing around with some LiveCD's, and figured I'd send the high- > level notes I made - > > Fedora > > o Nice bootsplash, and pretty sweet looking animated cursor > o Doesn't auto-login by default it seems > o 24px panel on top and bottom > o Panel objects for Firefox and Evolution, notification icon, fast > user switching, clock and volume control > o Spatial nautilus by default > o Icons for Computer, Home, Trash and 'Install to Hard Drive' on > desktop > o Preferences have their own submenus to split up the large menu > o Abiword and Gnumeric instead of OpenOffice, presumably because of > space > o No Thunderbird > > OpenSuSE > > o Pre-GRUB animation which looks nice, then rather ugly GRUB > progress dialog > o Much simpler bootsplash generally, though has some bugs dropping > down to > boot messages (but with nice black bubble background) > o Auto-login - same pointless progress icons on the GNOME session > splash > o Immediate first time login splash, full screen, telling me about > the project, community > support and build service > o Poor fonts generally, show up small and thin > o 24px panel at bottom, with panel objects slab menu, tomboy, > network status, screen resolution (sax2/yast), > volume control, clock and show desktop > o linux's Home (poor default username IMHO), Live Installer, Online > Help, openSuse, and Trash > on the desktop > o Browser nautilus by default > o Nautilus 'Open in Terminal' plugin > o Openoffice (hellishly fast for LiveCD, scary!), F-Spot, Banshee, > Evolution > o No Thunderbird > o Nice shutdown dialog, and shutdown boot splash > > All in all, Fedora seemed much closer to the experience that we have > currently with OpenSolaris, and you'd probably not realize there was a > different operating system underneath. OpenSuSE did a better job at > polish generally I think. Both made VirtualBox have a fit during > shutdown. > > > Glynn > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > -- Andy http://blog.sartek.net _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
