Great! now let's report a few bugs :)

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Great! now let's report a few bugs :)
started by: wazoox

Posted by wazoox on Sep. 06 2004,21:12

I installed DSL tobday on a P166 with 24 MB Ram, and it works just great! It's much more responsive than win95 on this machine . Under windows, while playing mp3 or ogg the machine is swapping and sometimes the sounds hiccups and skips... under DSL running XMMS the CPU remains under 40% and the memory free 11 MB! Wooohoo! You can surf the web while listening music on such a beast, isn't it WONDERFUL?

Now here are a few little bugs I found (they're easy to correct fortunately):

1) portmap doesn't run at boot. You can't mount an NFS share, you have to first start portmap by hand. I started it, and it works fine, even while running in LiveCD mode on my dinosaur. There is no reason not to start it as default (if it works on my machine it will on anyone's else), please add it :)

2) the /etc/group file is filled with "knoppix" everywhere :) You'll have to replace "knoppix" by "dsl" in all groups like "audio", "cdrom",etc to be able to mount cdroms, listen music, etc as a simple user. Very easy to correct, too :)

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 07 2004,01:04

I would think that people who don't use NFS (most single PC home users) would rather have it turned off by default. This way the default install will use less RAM.

Posted by wazoox on Sep. 07 2004,08:21

Quote (cbagger01 @ Sep. 06 2004,21:04)

This way the default install will use less RAM.

As I mentioned, It ran perfectly with as little as 24 MB RAM in liveCD mode... do you think that lots of people will really need it to run with LESS ram?

Posted by davide on Sep. 07 2004,11:07

It's just enought to let people know how to start browsing the network in a couple of click. the "keep it simple and lite" rule should always be followed, in my opinion.
Instead..if it's not already there, let's give people an easy tool to do this task.
(I don't knowif it's there I have no lan, right now):;):

Posted by wazoox on Sep. 07 2004,20:07

BTW I just played a bit with the "click and run" tool, and it's, waoh, impressive! Just great! Oh, and Opera run like a dog on my machine, but you'd have guess it...

Posted by wazoox on Sep. 07 2004,20:11

Another little thing: Nedit was ditched for SCiTe. I used to like Scite but frankly, nedit is more powerful and waaaaaaay faster. And the very latest nedit at last has the tabs! So please, bring back NEDIT, the best editor in the universe!

Posted by John on Sep. 08 2004,07:22

Scite vs. Nedit
It is simply a question of size, 1.8M vs 705k, for a short while we had an even smaller editor, Beaver, but we had too many complaints about it's lack of features and speed.

I think Scite is about the best compromise we have of features and size. We also have Vim, Nano and Zile for editing and Ted-gtk for word processing.

Maybe someone will make an extension for Nedit eventually.

Posted by ripcrd6 on Sep. 08 2004,14:16

Maybe John or Robert can make a button for the DSL Control Panel that will start the portmap service, like starting monkey or ssh, etc. Unless it is already there. I don't use NFS, so I wouldn't have noticed.

As for Scite, it's OK. I've never used Nedit enough to see the attraction. I actually use nano for most of what I do. Having a graphical/desktop editor like Scite is just a bonus. I despise vi and have never used emacs. I know, I'm an infidel. I just never needed an OS that was an editor too.