[indiana-discuss] Some Thoughts After An Installfest Event

[Andras Barna]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Lurie <yura at gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> Nice experiment!
>
>
>  > (1) Installation was very slow. We used to install
>  > SXDE onto the same machine before, which took us less than 45 minutes to
>  > finished. Today, most of the folks spent about the same amount of time
>  > on installation. We think this is too much to install a CD.
>
>  Were you installing the version with "All languages" or the one with "Primary Languages" ? The former is further compressed and indeed takes a long time to install.
>
>
>  > (3) A majority of the people complained that
>  > OpenSolaris could not mount their USB drive correctly.
>  > Well, we did see some success, but a lot of failures at
>  > the same time.
>
>  Yep, probably due to:
>  http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6682222
>  which is fixed in b88
>
>
>  > (5) Many people would like the shutdown button be
>  > placed at a more visible location.
>
>  Yep, plus would be great if there would be a way to
>  reboot without typing "pfexec init 6" in a terminal...

see http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/solaris.html.en


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