[indiana-discuss] Some Thoughts After An Installfest Event

[Qingye Jiang (John)]

Hi Shawn,

Actually we were using this approach. The problem was, the Appearance 
window popup, with blank as its content -- there is nothing to see in 
the window. We used the mouse to point blindly to the "Visual Effects" 
tab, and clicked the approximate position blindly, and then type Alt+N. 
Then we were able to switch back on some machines, but failed some 
others. :-)

When compiz fails, most of the windows do not display content correctly, 
blank dominates.
>  (4) Compiz totally failed due to the fact that we are using integrated
>  graphic cards. The problem is, when Compiz failed it is very difficult
>  to turn it back to non-3D desktop. We knew how to do the trick via Alt+N
>  key combinations, but sometimes the system was not able to response to
>  this trick.
>   

It's actually very easy to do this. System -> Preferences ->
Appearance -> Visual Effects.

Unless, I'm misunderstanding your comment.


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Shawn Walker 写道:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Qingye Jiang (John) <John.Jiang at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  Today in Beijing we organized an installfest event with OpenSolaris
>>  2008.05. The machines we used are Lenovo E680A, which has an intel
>>  core-duo 1.73 GHz CPU with 1 GB memory. This was a full-day event -- we
>>  provided 45 laptops, which attracted more than 100 people during the
>>  whole event. They were instructed to install OpenSolaris 2008.05 from
>>  CD, and install some packages via IPS and traditional method. Some
>>  engineers and interns from Sun were there to provide onsite. Most of the
>>  attendees had but very little experience with Solaris previously, some
>>  of them used Linux for various periods before.
>>
>>  Some feedbacks:
>>
>>  (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.
>>     
>
> As others have noted, if you are using the "Primary Languages"
> version, installation will be much faster. The "All Languages" version
> uses a different compression algorithm that gets far better
> compression, but it is currently much slower.
>
> On my old Dell Inpsiron 5150, it takes about 15 minutes to install the
> "Primary Languages" version, and 11 minutes to install on my desktop.
>
> SXDE has never taken less than 45 minutes to install for me, so I
> can't comment on that.
>
>   
>>  (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.
>>     
>
> There could be some problems depending on what filesystem is on the
> USB flash device. Notably, sector size, and so forth.
>
>   
>>  (4) Compiz totally failed due to the fact that we are using integrated
>>  graphic cards. The problem is, when Compiz failed it is very difficult
>>  to turn it back to non-3D desktop. We knew how to do the trick via Alt+N
>>  key combinations, but sometimes the system was not able to response to
>>  this trick.
>>     
>
> It's actually very easy to do this. System -> Preferences ->
> Appearance -> Visual Effects.
>
> Unless, I'm misunderstanding your comment.
>
>   
>>  (5) Many people would like the shutdown button be placed at a more
>>  visible location.
>>     
>
> Right Click the menu bar -> Add To Panel -> Scroll down to Shutdown
>
>   
>>  I will try to write more later.
>>     
>
> Thanks so much for the feedback!
>
>