[Mageia-discuss] beta testing - GNOME live CD

[Len Lawrence]

On 20/04/12 17:54, Philippe DIDIER wrote:
> Len Lawrence a écrit :
>>   On 20/04/12 11:35, Manuel Hiebel wrote:
>>> Le 20/04/2012 11:07, Len Lawrence a écrit :
>>>> This is my production machine.  The system started to boot and seemed
>>>> to be getting ready to switch to the gui and reported "the driver has
>>>> changed" and ejected the CD and asked me to reboot.  End of story.
>>> Have you read the blog post, the download page or the errata ?
>>>
>>> "Please note there is a bug about LiveCDs and NVIDIA graphic cards. A
>>> workarround can be found in the Errata"
>>>
>>> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Errata#LiveCD_and_Nvidia_card
>> Thanks, that was very useful.  The system displayed perfectly with the
>> nouveau driver.  But.  GNOME 3; horrible.  Cannot work with it, ever.
>> More to say on the forums.
>>
>> Len
>>
> Just try KDE beta3 liveCD : it's wonderful (after the workaround for
> nvidia graphic card problem)
> quite everything is OK
> you just need to add the repo in CCM rpmdrake and validate the non-free
> and tainted repo if you want to read multimedia files : the gstreamer
> plugins rpm and dependancies will be automagicaly downloaded
>
> never used such a good LiveCD (better than fedora, debian, opensuse !)
>
> Philippe
>
>
I suppose I ought to try KDE but have little hope of liking it.  The 
couple of times I tried it in the past I felt totally lost, as I do in 
GNOME 3.  My main interest is development and for a new release I would 
want to make sure that I can run all my home grown ruby scripts OK 
because they effectively define a big chunk of what I do and I have no 
idea how to go about installing a persistent development environment in 
a live CD session.  I could not see immediately how to access my hard 
disk from the live CD either.

Len