Just wanted to thank all Conectiva Linux Staff for releasing this "BEAUTAAAAFUL!!!!!" distribution!!!!
I am not a hardcore linux user, but a user who likes to try all sorts of distro's just for fun...(Have tried all the majors, some of smaller ones...)
Connectiva has always crossed my mind as a latin based distro, thus i didnt have the mojo to go all out and actually try it.
But after trying CL 10 Beta 1 CD1 via Bittorrent, i can surely say i was amazed!!!!
Its Beautiful! Professional Beauty that is. It is not like some of the super artistic themes at kde-look.org... (dont get me wrong i love fun eye-candy as well). But a professional good looking desktop is what is needed in order to break in to business/office desktop world.
I think you guys got the right idea...
As for the Beta OS itself, so far i have just encountered 2 "problems" which is not major in any way...
1. CL didnt seem to get my mouse scroll features right. But this was a simple fix in the XF86Config-4 file... (just had to change the IMPS/2 protocol)
2. CL coundlt pick up my sound cards? (C-Media integrated audio and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI card) However ALSA seemed to be installed, but this doesnt bother me since it is Beta 1
***UPDATE*** i was able to manually load the modules via rc.local file. the modules are present just didnt autoload. aside from that i also installed the enterprise kernel with nvidia drivers and loaded nvidia and ntfs modules as well.
Overall i think CL 10 will be a VERY nice distro!!!! but there are still a few things you guys can improve appon.
The Good!
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- Professional "good looking" consistent theme (KDE 3.2)
- Menu was well organized and EASY to navigate
- Boot up gives options to start in X11 or console mode (to install nvidia drivers, etc.)
- APT works as expected
Things that can be fixed
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- Aside from the 2 minor problems from above
- During "gui" install, the fonts... were a bit ugly/small/ hard to read
- The login screen needs to replace i think 1 or 2 latin words (convert to english). should be a quick fix.
Things to be *wished for
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- North American APT repositories?
maybe there is already some that i was unable to find, but if someone knows about it please let me know!!! thank you.
Other than that, CL was great! Thank you once again.