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?
- 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.
- 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
Thanks, Enrico Accenti
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:20 -0500, E.B. A. wrote:
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?
Try running system-config-services and shutdown a few of the services that you may not need and see what you get.
Menu/System/Administration/Services if your running the GUI
--- On Wed, 4/29/09, E.B. A. usul80@gmail.com wrote:
From: E.B. A. usul80@gmail.com Subject: F11 Preview - First impressions To: fedora-test-list@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
On 04/29/2009 06:20 PM, E.B. A. wrote:
One question: when the system boots and the progress bar is displayed there is no Fedora logo. Is this correct?
What video card do you have? Sounds like there is no kernel mode setting triggering.
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