Hello,
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 11:49 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
Hi!
As one or the other knows, there was a LinuxTag in Salzburg/Austria at
the Fachhochschule
(
http://www.fh-salzburg.ac.at/News_Detail.82.0.html?&no_cache=1&L=...).
Keine news_id übergeben. :(
As you can read in the above mentioned URL, SuSE and Ubuntu where
there
as well as myself (speaking for Fedora instead of DavidHackl who was
busy with business).
However. My experience/notes.
It was my first (bigger) speach. I was quite enthusiastic, but also
quite nervous, as you can guess. :-) I only received positive feedback
yet, that's fine.
OpenSuSE Xen Workshop
=====================
They where in trouble. FH installed OpenSuSE 10.3 on the day before.
Every time you booted the machine with Xen kernel and X came up, the
machine crashed (blank/black screen) nothing except holding the power
key to power it off worked. I was asked if I may help. As a clear
statement I answered yes and tried to debug the problem. OK, in the
first moment I was quite amused, that it doesn't work - but thinking as
a technician, I though if it would happen to me with Fedora, I would
also be happy if someone tries to help me. At one moment I thought it
has something to do with the vga option they pass along and the vgabios
patching they do, but actually this wasn't the reason and I gave up
without a real solution. At this time, a Fedora-Xen-LiveCD would have
helped. :-P
It's a know bug, fedora was touched too. It should be fixed in updates.
User question: YaST is free, cannot Fedora also use it?
======================================================
Clear answer: Yes, we could. I believe it's FOSS, as it has GPL license,
but it would be hard to accomplish this mission, as SuSE does
configuration in a total different style. AFAIK.
However, the question showed me: Users want a single point of entry for
their configuration (tasks). Like 'Control panel' under Windows it
seems. They want to configure their resolution, theme, desktop
background, etc. And even Xen they want to see inside there it seems -
SuSE has Xen in YaST.
It's mostly question of Desktop Manager I think. XFCE had something
similar.
Thank you for good report!
--
Marek Mahut <marek(a)mahut.sk>