Fedora 7 Test 4 GNOME based i386 Live CD report

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 19:26 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> Just adding my thoughts about the LiveCD so far:
> 
> - Two of my main use cases for a LiveCD are missing: checking the
> memory and checking the hardware
>      - Where did memtest on the boot screen go?

Hasn't been on any of the Fedora Live images.  I can definitely see it
making sense.  If you file a bug against the LiveCD component, I'll look
and see if it can be done easily (shouldn't be bad at all)

>      - There was some smolt GUI but now it seems to have vanished?

The GUI has been split out and isn't being installed by default as it
could still use a little bit more time.

> - crond and atd were turned off but anacron seems to be left on
> leading to some pretty severe slowdowns when that kicked in

Aha, good catch.  Added to the config.  Thanks.

> -  Inclusion of some default xorg.conf file is messing with the proper
> screen resolution autodetection. I have had two systems so far have
> vastly reduced screen resolutions on booting the LiveCD and the
> solution was to clobber xorg.conf and restart X and both were detected
> perfectly after that.

There is no xorg.conf included by default; there is one auto-generated
by system-config-display at boot time, but that should be fine (it
should match what would have gotten generated by anaconda).  Can you
file a bug against X with the X config and X log attached?

> - Is yum upgrading from test4 to final going to be "supported"? I know
> there was some talk of this earlier but haven't heard anything formal
> lately.

We're doing everything we can to help ensure this works.  If there are
problems that people notice upgrading to rawhide from test4 in the
run-up to F7 final, please file bugs and make them block F7Blocker.
Also, cc me if you'd like and we can try to make sure they get fixed.

> - I am very happy that NetworkManager now finally supports WPA without
> any special tricks. I found that is was requiring some manual
> intervention to switch between wired and wireless networks ... is that
> because NMDispatcher is not enabled by default? Was that disabling by
> deafult intentional?

No, NMDispatcher just runs custom scripts...  arguably it should be
enabled by default, but if so, the bug should be that they shouldn't be
separate initscripts.

> - The LiveCD runs quite slowly on my 850 MHz laptop with 256 MB RAM
> but it does run OK. That might have been due to the cpuspeed service
> being enabled.

More just that things are slow with 256 megs of RAM I think :(
Especially as we don't enable found swaps on the live images to avoid
making changes to running systems[1]

> - It is lovely that you are including links to Magnatune and Jamendo
> in Rythmbox and Firefox ... the only problem is that their music is in
> mp3 format which we cannot play (without some hoop jumping)

They both provide things in ogg which is a good part of why we're
linking to them.

Jeremy