From: "Frank Heldt" <Frank.Heldt@mahr.de> To: <redhat-devel-list@redhat.com> Subject: rawhide 1.2.9 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:11:06 +0100 Hello friends, i finally got some time to download and test the latest "rawhide" and i must say i'm impressed. When this becomes the next official RedHat 6.0 it will be the best ever :-) To make it even better, I have some suggestions/comments/questions to this snapshot: * The new "color" startup is really nice, but you put raw ESC - Codes in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions. Don't do that, it makes this file unprintable. Please use echo -e "\033..." or (more portable) tput. * (Only a reminder) I'm running the xntpd daemon and set my clock initially with /etc/ntp/step-tickers. This doesn't use the new "colored" output yet (and "destroys" this nice looking bootup...) * I usually startup in initlevel 5 with kdm (so I put "KDE" in "/etc/sysconfig/desktop") and it work's as expected. It would be really nice, if kdm came up with the language set up in "/etc/sysconfig/i18n". (I sourced this file in /etc/rc.d/init.d/xdm, exported LANG and got a fine german login screen :-). I also changed the kdmrc file, so that I can select between "kde,gnome,fvwm,failsafe" at login. BTW: I saw this ugly line in "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xdm": <if [ -n "`grep KDE ....`" ]; then ...> You could better say <if grep -q KDE ...>, although this hole thing looks strange, it scans the same file several times for different keywords. * /dev/pty?? and /dev/tty[a-z][a-z] are not "other" writable, so kvt from the kdebase package doesn't work. Is this to stop a security hole or just an oversight ? * With the new console-tools I get a warning on bootup, but I thing this will get away in one of the next snapshots. * The mod_php3 apache module misses the postgresql interface. This has been discussed here before, but it is really usefull to have it in. Are there any reasons against including it ? * openldap is not in the snapshot anymore, will it show up again or is it canceled ? * (*Hint*) There is a much better fvwm2 available (2.1.11 IIRC) * The new 2.2 kernel includes IRDA, but you need the irda-tools to use it. Any chance to get it in ? Ok, that's enough for now ;-) I will look further for any problems with this snapshot, but as I said it is really fast and stable until now. BTW: I stopped the bootup times on my PC, a 400PII with Linux, Win98 and NT 5.0b2 on it. To see the login screen it takes Linux => 35sec Win98 => 35sec NT5.0b2 => 1:20min No comment. Thank you guys at RedHat for this great stuff. Bye Frank --- Frank Heldt Mahr GmbH/Entwicklung Tel. +49 551 7073 511 mailto:Frank.Heldt@mahr.de -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe redhat-devel-list-request@redhat.com < /dev/null