Hoary Live (intel)

[Sorin Paliga]

Hello,

Tested on (1) a quite old pentium ii and (2) on a brand new pentium 4 
(160 gb/3000 mhz/ tft display):
- unlike warty live, does not correctly detect mouse in case 1, and in 
case 2 nothing on screen than vertical strips on the left side; tried 
several resolutions, none worked. even if i assume one should 
ultimately work, i gave up.
- in warty, live was ok with detecting anything (both described cases); 
installed, mouse was detected only after running dpkg-reconfigure 
xserver-xfree86, which does not work with live hoary.

Suggestions for hoary installable:
- (optional, but highly recommended) graphical installer; Mandrake, ALT 
Linux, Lycoris, Xandros... may offer wonderful examples; current 
installer in warty is just fine and simple to use, but a graphical 
installer would be of course more attractive;
- a MUST: the possibility to configure and TEST hardware issues in the 
last phase of installation (mandrake and suse style); and also 
configure network settings (mainly when a proxy is there, and the more 
and more frequent situation of mixed networks running windows, mac os 
and oinux); samba and, ideally, afp too would be fine (I do not 
remember which linux distro has atalk installed, was fine);
- (a MUST): a simple way to configure Ubuntu as print server or 
internet router (it is so simple with MDK 9.x-10.x, and may be a good 
example);
- automatic mount of fat32 and ntfs partitions; and of mac os paritions 
in the ppc version; note that hfs and hfs+ formatted disks are 
correctly read and mounted in ppc version (warty), but not the mac os 
partitions; also, intel version has a hfs/hfs+ reading utility, which 
does not work (mac cd's are displayed as 'unreadable').

If hardware detection and other issues referring to settings are 
solved, then a GREAT distro indeed; almost very good already in warty.

Good luck and wonderful days to come

Sorin Paliga
University of Bucharest / Universitatea din București
Department of Slavic Languages / Catedra de Limbi Slave
http://www.unibuc.ro/ro/cd_sorpaliga_ro
http://www.unibuc.ro/en/cd_sorpaliga_en