Re: Live CD and others general GNUstep remarks

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

csnicolas@swansea.ac.uk wrote on 08.02.2005 15:13:45:

> Hi,
> 
> Finally had a chance to test the live CD :-)
> 
> First, I must say the result is quite good -- lots of apps, fast 
> (impressive, considering it's a live CD !),
> well integrated... It's really a good way of showing GNUstep.
> 
> Now... some (constructive) critics... :-)
> 
> First, some general remarks...
> 
> there's a lot of problems with booting this CD -- I know, it's 
> apparently morphix's fault, but that's
> really a shame... I had to try 3 computers before finding one that 
> accept it :-/ (and no, not particularly
> old computers...). It could perhaps be nice to use something else than 
> Morphix ?

I downloaded Morphix 0.5-pre4 LightGUI

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/morphix/MorphixCombined-LightGUI-0.5-pre4.iso?download

which worked a lot better than the GNUstep Live CD: it did mount on my Mac 
(GS Live did not) and it did boot at my Home PC (GS Live booted only at a 
DELL at work)

> 
> The fact that no "well known" web browser such as Firefox is included 
> is imho a mistake -- there's a lot
> of good docs on the web, and people should be able to access them 
> easily. So as long as we don't have
> a good GNUstep webbrowser, we really should include firefox (for 
> example).

true


Regards, Lars