[64studio-devel] 64 Studio 2.1rc1 is out

[Daniel James]

Hi Free,

Here's my initial test report on 2.1-rc1 AMD64, installed from DVD with 
no network available (to isolate the laptop in question). Generally it's 
very good, no problems at all during the install.

There are a few things we need to fix for a final release, most 
important first...

1. The Gnome splash hangs around until you click it. Quentin saw this 
once before, I think; I can reproduce it on this clean install.

2. Gnome menu icons are missing for Scribus, Hexter and Nekobee.

3. The gnumeric* and abiword* packages are on the DVD, but not installed 
by default. gnotime is not installed by default either. This leaves the 
Office menu looking a little empty :-)

4. Jackbeat is installed by default, but I'm not sure we need it,
as we have Hydrogen. I'm glad to leave it in the repo for people who 
like it.

5. The myspell-fr package is installed by default (French dictionary), 
but not other languages. This means Icedove can only spellcheck in 
French. We don't have the myspell-en-us package on the DVD either, so 
Americans would be forced to use real English spellings. Is that a bug? ;-)

6. System Tools -> Sysinfo menu item does not function. It calls a 
program called sysinfo which appears to depend on Mono (uggh!) May be 
part of the gsysinfo package, which I can't find any up to date 
information on. (I think it's in Ubuntu universe, but not Debian).
I'd rather just remove the menu item, unless people have any favourite 
equivalent. I personally only watch Jack's DSP load figure, but then I 
have plenty of RAM and recent CPUs.

7. The alacarte menu editor for Gnome is not on the DVD. We had some 
requests for that, it used to be in the repo.

Cheers!

Daniel