[Mageia-discuss] First impressions

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Maarten Vanraes wrote:
> Op dinsdag 15 februari 2011 22:01:21 schreef Thomas Backlund:
>   
>> Maarten Vanraes skrev 15.2.2011 22:34:
>>     
>>> These are my own very conchise first impressions:
>>>
>>>
>>> - no btrfs? (except in advanced setup)
>>>       
>> I think we can enable support for btrfs in standard setup
>> (but I dont think we should go for it as default yet...)
>>     
>
> exactly, i looked at the list, and it lists ext3, ext4, xfs, jfs, etc... btrfs 
> could easily be there amongst those.
>
> I would indeed wait to set it by default when it has been more used and proven 
> as stable. (perhaps one or two releases further)
>
>   
>>> - core media
>>> This screen was never clear to me, and i never selected it, however,
>>> perhaps for iso installation, a mirror repository should be
>>> automatically there and selected by default? so that if there's updates,
>>> they can already be used during installation... ? WDYT?
>>>       
>> Well, that page is to give the user the choice to add a mirror repo if
>> she/she wants it, but not forcing it...
>>     
>
> i'm just thinking if we list some form of updates there by default, it could 
> mean faster install (no updates later on), and if something wasn't functional, 
> at release time, it could be "pushed" from repositories, so that it would work 
> well.
>
> at the same time, i think we should try to minimize the amount of packages 
> needed to have working network, (or use the stuff that's in the stage tarballs 
> to get network, instead of first installing part of it)
>
>   
>>> - i selected HTTP and it installed a few packages so i could enable
>>> networking (2min)
>>> - the partition step kept being highlighted, even when i was configuring
>>> network...
>>> - http://distrib-
>>> coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64 didn't
>>> seem to work when configuring additional media
>>>       
>> It might have been overloaded, so no free download slots...
>>     
>
> perhaps, i'm not sure
>
>   
>>> - KDE choice (very funny artwork :-D )
>>> - installing (5min)
>>> - when configuring, wizard said my password was trivial to guess, even
>>> though i had letter and digits in it with total length 8
>>>       
>> A good pasword should contain a mix of atleast 3 of theese:
>> - lower-case characters
>> - upper-case characters
>> - numbers
>> - special characters
>>
>> and preferably >=10 characters
>>     
>
> so, it's either trivial or good? no inbetweens?
>
>   
>>> - perhaps the iso media should be removed after installation and when
>>> updated media are installed? it keeps requesting for the DVD...
>>>       
>> That would mean getting network traffic, even if you have it on the iso.
>> And the user can always change it in the media manager
>>     
>
> how often do you have people installing ISO, then removing iso, to boot from 
> disk; only to find out that you have to put it in again to install a few 
> applications. granted the first reboot doesn't boot from the iso, but the 
> subsequent boots do use the iso...
>
> otoh, indeed it could mean increased network traffic...
>
>   
>>> - vim didn't show a color scheme for /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg .
>>> - trying to update with urpmi --auto-select showed me that i had an
>>> orphaned package ? kernel-desktop-devel ? odd...
>>>       
>> urpmi orphans detection isn't perfect yet...
>>     
>
> i don't think this is the problem, tbh, i'm wondering why it was even 
> installed? (unless it was for dkms stuff?)
>
>   
>>> logs vbox3 guest: (vbox3 is still in 2010.2, so perhaps we should have
>>> vbox3 compatibility?)
>>>       
>> vbox 4 is in 2010.2 backports
>>     
>
> true, but would you dare to upgrade an existing vbox3 version to vbox4? i have 
> several machines that are "saved"...
>
>   

See: comments:
/Preliminary testing shows Virtual Box Appliances from ver 3.1.10-12 
import and function well in ver 4.0.x and visa-versa / 12/26/2010 satellit
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files#VirtualBox

I default to .vmdk and .ovf for export and import and do not use new 
.ova format for exports to maintain compatibility.

Tom Gilliard
satellit_ on freenode IRC
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>> Thomas
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