Fedora 7 Test 4 GNOME based i386 Live CD report

[Rahul Sundaram]

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?

It wasn't there in any test release of Fedora 7 afaik. File a request.

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

This hasn't been integrated with firstboot. It wont help check your 
hardware.
> 
> - crond and atd were turned off but anacron seems to be left on
> leading to some pretty severe slowdowns when that kicked in

File a bug report.

> -  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.

File a bug report.

> - 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.

Jesse keating or Will Woods, what was the final decision on this. Would 
have been good to note this in the test 4 announcement.

> > - 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?

Thats a bug too. Report it.

> - Wireless has improved quite a lot. I have an assortment of those
> little wifi USB dongles that I picked up for $20 each that work out of
> the box now. I have a Netgear WG511T PCCard that doesn't work out of
> the box. I think it has an atheros chipset. Is that one of those
> non-free things that Ubuntu includes but Fedora doesn't?

Yes. Ubuntu uses proprietary madwifi driver. There is a free software 
solution that was stalled for a long time due to potential legal issues 
but that has been clearly recently by SFLC. Don't know the status of the 
merge.
> 
> - I don't like the excessive amount of default folders in your home
> directory. I agree that they should be consolidated somewhat. I would
> suggest that Pictures, Video and Music should be put as a subdirectory
> of Multimedia.

I would prefer that too.

> - 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)

Trying to play crashed both times when trying to play Magnatune or 
Jamendo songs.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434299
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434300

Afaik both of these have all the songs in ogg format too. Do file a 
enhancement request for accessing them by default.

Rahul