F12 KDE live feedback: extremely smooth and polished !

Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 14:56:36 UTC 2009


I ran F12 KDE Live for a couple hours last night.  Mostly surfing and
doing what I could do without having access to my real data.

It wouldn't run properly on my laptop. (HP HDX9494 aka Dragon).  It
installed fine and it ran OK, but the video on the laptop display was
corrupted.  You could see the windows and icons, but they were a very
dim blue color like you were looking through a snowstorm.

This isn't the first time I've had video trouble with Fedora and this
machine.  I currently have an open bug attributed to another display
problem.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525767

Because of this issue I stopped running F12 on my laptop.

I then installed it on my wife's HP laptop, where it ran almost
perfectly.  

F12 looks great.  Everything worked perfectly except for what can best
be described as a bit of a stutter with kickoff when in classic mode and
selecting from various items.   

All the laptop functionality worked great.  Sound, video, wifi, etc.  It
was all there and without any intervention on my part.  We've come a
long way, baby !

All in all, I give F12 KDE an A+ from what I saw in my test.

I am going to log a bug about the video problem on my laptop.








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