Re: FC4 feature list?

From: Tony Nelson (tonynelson_at_georgeanelson.com)
Date: 06/12/05

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    Rahul -- should I keep CC'ing the moderated fedora-docs-list? My last
    reply is held up for moderation and I haven't received approval or
    disapproval yet. Well, likely this is the last reply anyway. Thank you
    for your participation on fedora-list in this matter.

    As before, comments interspersed below.

    At 3:27 PM +0530 6/12/05, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
    >Hi

      [Tony Nelson wrote:]
    >>Well, I just mention it as something unclear from both FC3 and FC4 release
    >>notes. It seems odd that mediacheck would need something to read the disk
    >>successfully, and yet the real install surely doesn't.
    >>
    >>
    >For my understanding this has to do with faulty cd-rom drives which
    >refuse to turn off dma even when explicitly instructed to do so by the
    >kernel.

    Well, you probably get my point. I hope somebody who knows will chime in
    and put this to rest.

    >>Well, the release notes would be a good place to put a (full) link to that
    >>sort of thing. Especially with the bug or whatever in mediacheck, there
    >>might be lots of people facing this roadblock when installing on a Windows
    >>machine, as I did, and I had enough trouble figuring out how to do the more
    >>mature MD5 checksum stuff.
    >>
    >>
    >We could have this in the download page itself now. I googled this
    >information after the release notes was made.

    Well, good. Now add it! (I'm not trying to make you feel bad through
    criticism; I'm trying to clear up things that would (have) made the
    installation hard for me to do, in hopes of helping others.)

    >>>After the installation. Run level really doesnt matter.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>
    >>!! From the tone, I thought Gnome wouldn't work at all.
    >>
    >>
    >It might not.

    Wouldn't this leave the user in a confusing state with no UI? Unless they
    went to one of the hidden 6 terminals?

     ...
    >>>>6.1.4 Is [slocate] used by Actions -> Search for Files? (Apparantly yes.)
     ...
    >>>I dont think gnome-search-tool using slocate. It is not a build
    >>>dependency. It doesnt seem to be linked to the binary (ldd). Its not
    >>>mentioned in the help file either
    >>>
    >>>
    >>
    >>I saw it in the FC3 Search for Files help Introduction section: "Search for
    >>Files uses the find, grep, and locate UNIX commands". Maybe that's not
    >>slocate, but man locate brought up the slocate man page. Don't know about
    >>FC4.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >I forgot to mention that my current system is RHEL3 one so things might
    >be different for the search tool in FC4. Many of these problems could be
    >avoided by having more people look into it during the test releases(Yes,
    >they had release notes too) . Some of these are just prioritizing for
    >lack of time in relation to the amount of work necessary . Filing
    >detailed bug reports and initiating early discussions would be most
    >helpful. You could even request CVS access and provide content yourself
    >for that matter. Thank you for your feedback

    You're welcome. I didn't test FC4 because I only started using Linux about
    3 weeks ago, and I'm pretty confused even using a stable release. That's
    why my comments mostly reflect things that a confused user might have
    trouble with. Maybe I'll be up to testing FC5.
    ____________________________________________________________________
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