new user, and some questions/comments

[Blues]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, John P. Looney wrote:
>  I'm on the rpm-list, and I've noticed lots of PLD contributors on it.
> That, and the fact that most of the cool RPMs on rpmfind.net are PLD ones
> :)

:)

>  First, the installer:
>     The installer is a little too verbose - it prints each package as it
>     downloads & installs them.

many people were talking that it's too little verbose. What have we do? 
Make 2 instalers??

> I'd no idea how long it would take, or what
>     it had installed, unless I was looking through everything.

yes - this could be very usefull

>     I was also confused when the installer asked me what to do about 
>     multilingual packages - I didn't know would it install packages with
>     just polish docs, if I chose english-only etc. That should be cleared
>     up.

come on - we aren't making polish distribution...
This is PLD Linux Distribution.

Yes, polish is very well supported, but english is base.

>     I liked the detection of USB devices...but I've a USB mouse, and it
>     didn't see fit to create a /dev/usb/mice file. I had to do that myself
>     later.

none mouse is detected. especialy usb.
This could be on TODO list (Malekith? :) )

usbfs is now mounted on cvs versions

>     I was quite surprised that there was no X configuration at all. So,
>     the network installer also had to download all the X modules for all
>     cards. Will there be one soon ?

yes, X configuration is on TODO-list. When? who knows... (do you want to 
make it? ;) )
you can select modules to your card - installer supports it...

>  Some other bits:
>     The boot was quite slow. I think there must be "sleep 1" buried
>     somewhere inside all of the cute '[BUSY]' bits on startup.

come on...
On debian which I sometimes have to use (sad, but true...) this take the 
same time...

> I was very used to /etc/init.d/<scripts> as I was used to Solaris and
> RedHat - Does the LSB specify that /etc/rc.d/init.d should be used ? The
> lack of a "service" command is annoying - I thought that was part of the
> LSB too.

In cvs-version there is service

> I note that PLD uses lilo - why not grub ? It's so much nicer.

we have grub too. and rc-boot at your wish

>     Also, it installs, but does not configure zmailer on install. So, I
>     sent a few mails in mutt, and it took ages to realise that I was
>     getting errors like:
> Apr  3 09:16:28 bartender smtp[8812]: S392188AbSDCIxm: to=<ilug at linux.ie>,
> delay=00:22:46, xdelay=00:00:20, mailer=smtp, relay=mail.tuatha.org
> ([194.125.145.45|25|172.24.1.104|1052]), stat=error2 ^M->> 250 Reset state
> cvt=NONE
> Apr  3 09:16:42 bartender router[2736]: S392188AbSDCJQb:
> from=<mailer-daemon<@>>, rrelay=STDIN ("??"@bartender), size=6641,
> nrcpts=1, msgid=<20020403091642Z392188-2736+23 at bartender>
>     in my maillog, without mutt reporting problems. This is really bad.
> I've never used zmailer, so I tryed to work out where to configure it,
> couldn't, ripped it out & put back sendmail (which at least is a one-line
> "DS mail.antefacto.com" configuration).

zmailer is not good prepared...

>   I'm looking forward to using PLD over the next while. One BIG problem
> I'm had was the lack of a 2.4 kernel. Is there one anywhere ?  I have some
> old stuff on ext3 filesystems - I've just downloaded a stock kernel from
> somewhere, but I'd prefer if there was a SRPM I could customise instead.

we have 2.4 in "nest" on ftp.

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