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

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