[indiana-discuss] LiveCDs : Fedora and OpenSuSE

[Andras Barna]

some thoughts,
auto-login: imho it's a good thing (for home users) (/me hates
pidgins' keyring thingy)
note: prolly you know but: suse's (and ubuntu's etc) openoffice is
*not* openoffice it's "openoffice novell's edition" http://go-oo.org


On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Just playing around with some LiveCD's, and figured I'd send the high-
> level notes I made -
>
> Fedora
>
>  o Nice bootsplash, and pretty sweet looking animated cursor
>  o Doesn't auto-login by default it seems
>  o 24px panel on top and bottom
>  o Panel objects for Firefox and Evolution, notification icon, fast
> user switching, clock and volume control
>  o Spatial nautilus by default
>  o Icons for Computer, Home, Trash and 'Install to Hard Drive' on
> desktop
>  o Preferences have their own submenus to split up the large menu
>  o Abiword and Gnumeric instead of OpenOffice, presumably because of
> space
>  o No Thunderbird
>
> OpenSuSE
>
>  o Pre-GRUB animation which looks nice, then rather ugly GRUB
> progress dialog
>  o Much simpler bootsplash generally, though has some bugs dropping
> down to
>     boot messages (but with nice black bubble background)
>  o Auto-login - same pointless progress icons on the GNOME session
> splash
>  o Immediate first time login splash, full screen, telling me about
> the project, community
>     support and build service
>  o Poor fonts generally, show up small and thin
>  o 24px panel at bottom, with panel objects slab menu, tomboy,
> network status, screen resolution (sax2/yast),
>     volume control, clock and show desktop
>  o linux's Home (poor default username IMHO), Live Installer, Online
> Help, openSuse, and Trash
>     on the desktop
>  o Browser nautilus by default
>  o Nautilus 'Open in Terminal' plugin
>  o Openoffice (hellishly fast for LiveCD, scary!), F-Spot, Banshee,
> Evolution
>  o No Thunderbird
>  o Nice shutdown dialog, and shutdown boot splash
>
> All in all, Fedora seemed much closer to the experience that we have
> currently with OpenSolaris, and you'd probably not realize there was a
> different operating system underneath. OpenSuSE did a better job at
> polish generally I think. Both made VirtualBox have a fit during
> shutdown.
>
>
> Glynn
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Andy
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