Call for testing: Preview candidate available

[Michael R Head]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 14:37 -0500, Michael R Head wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 02:08 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: 
> 
> I'm using the Live CD. Here're my comments

> I'll try it on my laptop soon and report if there are any issues. If
> not, then good work all!

Looks great on my laptop (sending from evo 2.2 right now). 

Three small issues:
Evo2.2 thinks that it's still an unstable version and pops up a window
saying as much.
I have orinoco wireless ethernet and eepro100 wired ethernet on my
laptop. 
Ubuntu seemed to prefer my orinoco wireless, which worked, and I guess
lets me be untethered should I desire it, but I generally prefer wired
when I'm plugged in. I don't know if that's just due to modprobe
ordering or what.
Also, there's no way to set the timezone before the session starts, (not
that I necessarily want more user interaction during startup, but that
seems important for things like the clock applet, which have to be
reloaded after a timezone configuration).

Still, all minor quibbles. One bigger quibble:

Applications/system tools/add/remove programs is a little flaky, it
seems. It's doesn't seem synched properly to the applications that are
actually installed. It doesn't think (for example) that terminal, system
monitor, config editor, and archive manager are installed when they
clearly are. 

> 
> thanks for rebuilding my faith in the possibility of Linux on the
> desktop,

again, thanks

> mike
> 
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