On Friday 19 January 2007 03:23, Tobias Gerschner wrote: > Hi, > > > We'd like to invite anyone to participate and contribute in an open > discussion of the upcoming stable Yoper release. > > A preliminary agenda can be found here : > http://www.yoper.com/wiki/index.php?title=To_Do_for_upcoming_version > > The meeting is scheduled for SAT 21st of January 2007 , 10 p.m. CET . > If you don't know what that means for you, check here : > http://www.worldtimeserver.com . > > If you'd like to checkout the latest development snapshot do it here : > > http://88.198.41.209/build/YOS-WEEKLY-2007-03-slim.iso > > Feedback is very vital at this stage. In order to improve Yoper we > need constant feedback. So please check that ISO out and if you have > the time to stop by in the meeting and help us making Your Operating > System better. > > regards
Will try to make it if possible. On the weekly build test, a couple of initial comments - 1 The default smart channel is wrong it appears. Likewise, it would be useful for users if the installcd channel was included by default for those who download the full size iso rather than the slim version - then they can add packages directly from the cd. 2 Although it works fine, a little more clarification may be in order during the install. When selecting partitions, the option to choose a home partition is available, but that is not a requirement for the install to work, so perhaps on the first screen dealing with the partitioning, it would be useful to explain that a root partition (and swap?) is all that is needed, however a seperate home partition is useful for keeping your own data in in case of upgrades etc. 3 I received a few errors from udev on boot. Nothing which caused any issue, but perhaps worrying for users? It could be simply down to my using vmware to install the test iso in - but if others get these messages, it may need looking at. unknown key MODALIAS is one of the errors I think, the other was good old suspend2. The boot time seems fast - even in vmware. Much quicker than booting my main system in Yoper 2.x or any other distro! Nice one! I was surprised to not find smartpm-gui installed by default. I had to add it myself - that is something which I think a new user would need and should be installed during the installation of Yoper. It may be nice to have a script run on first boot up into the gui, which explains that the package manager is smart, maybe with a simple explanation of how to use it. Not vital, but a nice touch for those coming to Yoper from other distros (or indeed the older Yoper versions or <shudder> windows) Will continue to fiddle around with the install and see what else I can come up with before Saturday :) Mark _______________________________________________ yoper-dev mailing list [email protected] https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
