Re: Announcing GoboLinux 016 alpha

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Hugo Barrocas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tested by USB flash drive, on 2 computers, a tiny Asus Eeepc, and a bigger
> Toshiba.
> Both run smoothly, fast, and the desktop has black/blue "Gobo" nice colors
> :)
> Wifi worked fine on both, great improvement over the non-working wifi on
> Gobo015.

Great, thanks for testing!

> This alpha is still kind of very much stripped off, no LibreOffice, not even
> a GUI file manager available yet?

We're not going to add a lot of packages to the ISO this time. We'd
rather make sure we have sane recipes than to ship with tons of binary
packages that will consume many hours of integration and testing. The
ISO is already at 1.5GB, so unless we're talking about small programs
chances are they won't get in. Do you have any suggestion for a
lightweight GUI file manager that we could consider including in Beta?

> It's got:
> Gimp (Eeepc didn't work, maybe low on RAM memory)
> Mosaic (wtf? A web browser from the 90's? )

:-)

> Firefox (works)
> Avahi VNC Server Browser
> Avahi SSH Server Browser
> Htop (works)
> GParted (works)
> Cups Printing Manager
> Vim (works)
> HP device manager
> Compton

Some of these shortcuts don't make sense to keep around. I'll review
them for Beta. Thanks for the report.

> On the Asus Eeepc:
> I had a sistem crash while browsing the net on Firefox, took a picture if
> you need it.

Sure, that helps. I have seen some problems with the Intel video
drivers when testing the ISO. Hopefully this one is not associated
with the Xorg driver stack.

> Couldn't open the Awesome menu hotkeys, or the Manual (but they poped-up and
> worked on the Toshiba).

Interesting. If you have time, could you do a small test? Edit
~/.xinitrc and replace "exec awesome" with "exec xterm". Then, when
you type "startx" and the xterm window opens, type "awesome". When the
window manager takes over, try to open the menu hotkeys again and
check the xterm window for any funny error messages that do not appear
when you do the same on the Toshiba machine.

> No sound output.

Some audio cards need special parameters when loading the drivers via
modprobe. Also, make sure that the audio output is not muted on
alsamixer.

> Looking good, keep up the good work :)

Thanks!
Lucas
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