Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] SOHO Alpha2 is ready

[Sergey P. <fa...@gm...>]

Hi, guys. Here's my take.

Installer isn't that bad, it's even nice. But:
1) You can't select Windows partitions in fstab in installer, only
Linux partitions are available to choose mountpoint for.
2) I've got a minor misunderstanding, when installer asked my for
second disc - tray was locked. Then I pressed ok, i have another disc,
tray was unlocked and I could insert disc two.
3) Also bootloader install is fucked up. It didn't detect FreeBSD,
didn't detect Windows XP (which old installer did). It found only VL I
installed and detected it as "Slackware 12.1_". And I couldn't find a
way to add another OS in bootloader in installer.

Now the actual run:
4) When you start VL from HDD first time, you have to configure X
again. Why won't it use Xorg.conf generated while starting up the
installer?
5) I have used my old /home partition, and /home/vanger appeared to be
chowned to 1000.none and chmodded to 700. That is really bad, if user
already has an old user directory, it should be chmodded and chowned
properly by installer.
6) SHOWTOPPER
When you try to start up KDE4, you get an xmessage "kstartupconfig4
does not exist or fails. Th". And when you press "ok", everything
horribly-horribly dies in some wildly-coloured blinking text-mode
garbage.


Why won't we use KDE 4.3.0?
As I see, release would be in a month, KDE 4.2.3 will look too
old-fashioned by that time. I think, we should switch to KDE 4.3.0 as
fast as possible, to give it more extensive testing (and to be able to
blame some bugs on KDE devs).
Also, we won't need to debug why our current 4.2.3 dies.