[Mageia-discuss] First impressions of Beta2 (fresh installation)

[Doug Laidlaw]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:58:53 PM Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> 
wrote:
> Only few things, minor and major:
> 
> - [minor] in first screens (ncurses) before the graphic installer the
> lines are displayed as special characters, probably a charset issue
> (has been reported by other)
Yes, I noticed that.
> - [minor] a translation of the ads during package installation
> according to the language selection would be a "nice to have"

How much of that is graphical?  A separate image for each language would 
quickly fill the DVD

> - [minor] bootloader setup does not recognize Ubuntu already present
> on the same harddisk (Mageia 1 grub recognized it)

I had only Mageia 1 and it was recognised.

There is an ongoing problem with Xscreensaver, which affects only a few of us 
(including Murphy me, who reported it) but the maintainer can't reproduce it:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4742

On installing Beta 2 as a fresh install, my CD-ROM changed from /dev/sr0 to 
/dev/hda, and the symlink to /dev/cdrom was not created.  On rebooting, the 
symlink was deleted.  That may mean that it is tied to the removal of mount 
points?  I have posted about this at the end of

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145

but perhaps it doesn't belong there.  The change of device is relatively 
minor.  Neither of these issues with the device was evident in my fully 
updated Beta 1.

Doug.