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

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Daniel,

|--==> Daniel James writes:

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

Thanks a lot for the report. My personal (biased ;) impression is that
although we lack some of the handy user interface tweaks of Ubuntu, we
have a very neat and stable system.

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

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

I've noticed that too, but I have no idea about how to fix it. Do you
know of any workaround?

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

Ok, I'll check if there is something available.

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

Ouch, I just discovered that the whole office suite was not tagged for
automatic install :/ I just fix it anyway, please try to run apt-get
update against the testing branch and:

aptitude install ~t^cdd$

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

Ok.

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

Looks like the same bug as the office suite.. I'll have a look.

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

I think it was an experiment from me, let's remove it from now.

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

Ok, I'll add it.

Ciao!

Free