On Friday 05 September 2003 02:36 pm, Anarky wrote: > just did an excited install of 9.2 rc1 ... but not on my computer, > but somebody else' : > > my opinions: > > some interface changes: > - liked the blue startup new > - hated the fact that they insisted on a fade white to blue when they > set it on so few colours that it doesn't look nice > - freezed every time I wanted to select a certain packaged from the > detail packages (2 times, that is) .. I think it was something like > GXedit .. > - still no preview of other styles for other WMs at the initial wizard > - freezed when I tried to install 'alsamixergui' package from the > package installer (though urpmi alsamixergui worked) > - still no (easy, if any) way to handle 4 speakers for the sound card Sb > Live 5.1 > - still no direct working dialup (modem detected, but still although > connecting it doesn't look like it's online to browsers) > - first I freaked out the nvidia installer said it had no drivers for > this kernel .. but it turns out it knew how to compile stuff if it had > the kernel source > - one time starting MC in an Eterm the F1-F12 keys didn't work .. hat to > go with Esc-1 .... > > > > well ... as it seems my initial impressions of 9.2 are far less than I > had hoped for :-( ... I'm thinking I might not install it just yet on my > computer ... and stick to 9.1 yet :-( ... actually I was so dissapointed > by the sound card frustration that I considered going back to windows > ... or searching for other hopefully smarter distros (low chance of > anybody autodetecting more than Mandrake, right ... maybe SuSe) ... in > other words .. evil thoughts ... please don't let me fall to the demons :) Remember, this is still a test system. rc1 means "release candidate 1" and there may be a 2 before all of the bugs are worked out. This is not yet a stable OS. Stay with 9.1 and do an upgrade when 9.2 is final. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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