Well, with any luck I will be able to use this livecd all day at work. I can get away with ssh and seamonkey for most tasks and hopefully can swipe someone else's workstation shouldthe need arise (like playing freecell!). Is there anything specific the dev team would like me to test? I'm going to try to connect to a windows share at work and transfer some stuff just for the heck of it.
Here's my current (preliminary) observations: A way to detect and mount swap partitions would be nice. Xorg 7 *still* doesn't have the the updated via driver for my laptop. Detection went properly, but I'm forced to use VESA (slow!). This isn't a livecd bug, and I don't know if using the custom driver code that I used previously would break other via's, but FWIW, my video is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01) At least now I know that I have to grab non-xorg CVS code from the guys who wrote the driver (which still didn't work quite right last time I tried it). I tried the keyboard layout switcher. I've no idea if it works correctly, but at least I get funny looking letters! :) The X fonts look really nice! A bit big for my eyes (I'm stuck at 1024x768 with this laptop) but still really nice. I noticed the iso size has grown considerably so I hesitate to request this, but gaim seems like it would be very useful if someone had only one computer and had to use the livecd for the rather long build process. Unfortunately, I've never seen gaim work right with nss/nspr and it didn't this time, either, so MSN would either be unsupported or GnuTLS would be needed. Probably not worth it since I've not seen anyone else request gaim. On the flip side, is there anything that can be trimmed down? Samba comes to mind, but it's probably just my inability to see its need. Or is there perhaps the possibility of releasing a src and nosrc version of the CD? Possible bugs?: When setting up the console there was a note that I would lose bright colors if I used LatArCyrHeb-16. I've been using that terminal font for a few months and can say that bright works in every situation I've seen. There is no kicker (for lack of a better word) on the panel. Right-click access to applications works, though, but I'm thinking of people who aren't familiar with Xfce. Anyway, I'm going back to playing around with this. It's really nice. Good work to all of you! -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
