--- On Wed, 4/29/09, E.B. A. <usul80(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: E.B. A. <usul80(a)gmail.com>
Subject: F11 Preview - First impressions
To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 3:20 PM
Hi all,
I installed and used F11 Preview and these are my first
impressions.
- The system runs ok, I did not have any big problem. I
have to admit it
looks more stable than I thought.
- Boot time is a bit higher than the advertised 20 seconds.
It goes from 30
to 50 seconds. I rebooted the system about 5 times. It is
still acceptable.
One question: when the system boots and the progress bar is
displayed there
is no Fedora logo. Is this correct?
IT depends on the graphic card that you have.
ie, some of the cards like ATI display the Fedora infinity logo correctly, others maybe
Nvidia just show the progress bar, this depends on your graphics card. Which graphics
card do you have?
- The only problems I had so far are related to the Package
Manager.
Sometimes when I modify the checkboxes in the repository
list it freezes or
it shows an eternal "Waiting in queue" message.
This happens sometimes even
if it is the first thing I do and even if all the update
requests are done.
I have to say, it is slightly less usable than my
experience on F9 (I missed
F10, sorry!). Once, after 10 minutes a "yum
locked" window popped up.
This is normal, if you are using CLI/command line
yum, the PackageKit kicks in and tries to connect itself, but since yum is running already
from command line, it complains that it cannot get the "exclusive Lock".
- I tried to install KDE (both in terminal and using the
package manger) but
I continuously get an signature error, which surprised me.
See the
following:
Package kdelibs-common-4.2.2-12.fc11.x86_64.rpm is not
signed
[root@squarz ~]# ^C
[root@squarz ~]# ^C
[root@squarz ~]# yum install @kde-desktop
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
[...]
Total size: 306 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Package kdelibs-common-4.2.2-12.fc11.x86_64.rpm is not
signed
This should not happen, rawhide packages are not signed. Maybe a bug. Also
the way that you are trying to install KDE is different than I have seen. As long as it
works it is OK. I have seen it recommendend to do a
# yum install "K Desktop Environment"
Thanks,
Enrico Accenti
--
Regards,
Antonio