VectorLinux5.9-rc2 bugs/annoyances

[uelsk8s]

ISO is here: http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.9/iso-release/VL5.9-STD-RC2.iso

vmount now mounts ntfs with ntfs-3g so please give that a try
VLwifi will now try to add a windows driver to ndiswrapper if no wireless connection is found
kernel is fixed for tuxonice. let us know if it works.

We changed the menu icon, please give us your honest opinion about it.

Thanks,
Uelsk8s

[exeterdad]

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Edit:  There now 

[M0E-lnx]

I never thought I'd use my 1000th post to say just this, but here it is anyway...

The link works here

[uelsk8s]

Happy 1000 M0e   

[exeterdad]

I never thought I'd use my 1000th post to say just this, but here it is anyway...

The link works here

lol!  You knucklehead!

Here ya go....  put it in your wallet or something.

[M0E-lnx]

Hehe... nice

[exeterdad]

We changed the menu icon, please give us your honest opinion about it.

Ummmm.....  You're pulling our legs right?  I'm not gonna spoil the surprise. But since I am who I am.  I like it.  Not sure if it's the right icon for VL though.

[easuter]

We changed the menu icon, please give us your honest opinion about it.

Erm....its a bit weird LOL.
My first thought was "How do I change it?!" 

[nightflier]

Checksum:

6e1472d00c966d268f6c06cd2874f905  VL5.9-STD-RC2.iso

[exeterdad]

kernel is fixed for tuxonice. let us know if it works.

We have tuxonice?

[easuter]

We have tuxonice?

We sure do. Its patched into the kernel, but the hibernate scripts are nowhere to be found...

A small insignificant detail noticed in XMMS: the playlist is full of leftover tracks of what appears to be a Reo Speedwagon CD 

[exeterdad]

For some reason DHCP seems to be giving me grief. Might be my router, but wasn't a issue before.  Each boot I'd run Vasm and reconfigure and I'd get connected.  But it wouldn't stick.  On boot I'd see the "Setting up basic network" text and it would hang for quite a while, then continue to boot. Setting as static works, and works FAST.  We'll see if anyone else notices anything.

Not sure that I have the hardware to test other things that have been worked on.  It's look'n good.

But I always feel like I'm being watched for some reason. 

[blurymind]

For some reason DHCP seems to be giving me grief. Might be my router, but wasn't a issue before.  Each boot I'd run Vasm and reconfigure and I'd get connected.  But it wouldn't stick.  On boot I'd see the "Setting up basic network" text and it would hang for quite a while, then continue to boot. Setting as static works, and works FAST.  We'll see if anyone else notices anything.

Not sure that I have the hardware to test other things that have been worked on.  It's look'n good.

But I always feel like I'm being watched for some reason. 

this might be the good old switching eth devices bug  There was a howto,which i had to btw use back at the pseudo cd
you guys are tickling my curiosity with that start button. Is it an eye?

[lagagnon]

Some things I've noticed:

1) still this xfce? bug: sometimes clicking the xfce menu item "Exit" does not work.
2) audacious has been replaced with xmms but the jwm and fluxbox menus still show audacious.
3) the jwm menu, main categories, some have icons, some don't. Looks unprofessional that way. I suggest we just remove the icons in those main menu categories...
4) in xfce the panel button at the bottom is for "vasm"  - perhaps we should change it to "vasmcc" ??

Users might be interested in these USED memory (excluding buffers) results for the 3 different window managers in VL5.9. This is with only xterm loaded and without "wbar" in fluxbox:

fluxbox: 74592K  (with wbar loaded its 78216K)
jwm:      75060K
xfce:      89848K

With xfce it takes 236000K to get the desktop up and loaded. So really, for users not to use swap memory they need to have 256MB of RAM. I'm sure 128MB will work with xfce, but loading OO and/or Firefox will definetely then be using swap. We "might" want to consider this in our "system requirements", because our website currently says "96MB" minimum. This is rather optimistic, IMHO!

[easuter]

Ok, I'm just going to be blunt: I really hate that icon. It doesn't give any branding you would expect from a distro, and it just looks...childish or immature.