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

[Susan Dridi]

Hi All,

Daniel James wrote:
> 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...

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

Also missing with the upgrade.

> 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.

Hydrogen is *really* nice and very intuitive. I tried playing around 
with Jackbeat, as a quick metronome substitute. But it was very 
confusing and I never managed to get any sound out of it, even though it 
was connected to Jack. I'm planning on removing 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? ;-)

Nah, we mercans don't need no gol dang spell checkers:-) Okay, well, I 
never use one, but I also remember my "times tables" and know how to 
count change:) It probably is a bug, spelling and grammar are lost arts, 
just visit any chat room and see if you can make out what they're 
talking about... OTOH, that's way beyond the scope of this project:-)

> 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.

Sysinfo doesn't function on the upgrade either, though I don't remember 
seeing it there before. I have plenty of RAM and CPUs too, I suppose I'm 
just curious about what it's supposed to show. Also, it gets really hot 
here in the summer, I've lost a few machines to heat when the air 
conditioning kicked off and I just had some fans running to keep it 
tolerable. So, I would love to know the CPU temperature. I *think* my 
mainboard is supposed to signal something to shut things down when it's 
too hot, but I don't remember anything about it or if I was supposed to 
do something.

Okay, rock on!

-Susan