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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

Just two comments to your comments...

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:14:12AM +0200, Mads Laursen wrote:
> I'd also like to join in and say "nice work".
> 
> Just installed from the iso (x86) the other day, and it's right back to the
> good old smgl.
> 
> Just a few nits:
> 
> The udev install left me without permissions on /dev, fixed by upgrading
> udev, so next iso should have that fixed by magic.
> 
> Choosing syslog-ng for sytem logger didn't quite work right.
> /etc/sysconfig/facilities was not set right, the new value was appended,
> instead of replacing the old ( syslog=syslogdsyslog-ng ). Doesn't quite look
> right, but minor issue. Is this a known issue, or should I file a bug?
> 
> There should be some magic when installing nfs-support, so remote_fs gets
> updated automagically... But that is at most "nice to have".

These are both related to quite buggy facilities management on the iso's 
cast reimplementation.  I've seen this before and this is really quite 
the worst part of the install.

> 
> Ohh, and a couple of non-iso quick ones:
> 
> Shouldn't firefox install some certificates? Like Verisign and such? Mine
> installed without any, and that makes ssl rather exciting ;-) Unless this is
> a feature, I'll file a bug.

Personally, I love this "feature".  It means I really do get to establish 
my own trust without having to go delete all the certs for the 
corporations I don't really trust as it is to handle my ssl 
verification.

On the other hand, we should make this an option.

> 
> Anybody got a good reference on tuning nfs? And perhaps xfs... Need to get
> the setup right, tired of having skips in video playing of my server ;-)
> 
> Anyway, very nice iso... Definetely usable.
> 
> /dossen
> -- 
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>                 -- Albert Einstein



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