Just adding my thoughts about the LiveCD so far:
- Two of my main use cases for a LiveCD are missing: checking the memory and checking the hardware - Where did memtest on the boot screen go? - There was some smolt GUI but now it seems to have vanished?
- crond and atd were turned off but anacron seems to be left on leading to some pretty severe slowdowns when that kicked in
- Desktop Effects works great for me! (ATI X800XL) Fedora made some good choices as to the default actions to include but some more customization exposed would be nice since there seems to be more in there than wobbly windows and workspace cube. Hyperconfigurability is what Beryl is for but being able to enable and disable the included features and reassign hotkeys/hotcorners would be a minimum.
- Inclusion of some default xorg.conf file is messing with the proper screen resolution autodetection. I have had two systems so far have vastly reduced screen resolutions on booting the LiveCD and the solution was to clobber xorg.conf and restart X and both were detected perfectly after that.
- Is yum upgrading from test4 to final going to be "supported"? I know there was some talk of this earlier but haven't heard anything formal lately.
- I am very happy that NetworkManager now finally supports WPA without any special tricks. I found that is was requiring some manual intervention to switch between wired and wireless networks ... is that because NMDispatcher is not enabled by default? Was that disabling by deafult intentional?
- Wireless has improved quite a lot. I have an assortment of those little wifi USB dongles that I picked up for $20 each that work out of the box now. I have a Netgear WG511T PCCard that doesn't work out of the box. I think it has an atheros chipset. Is that one of those non-free things that Ubuntu includes but Fedora doesn't?
- The LiveCD runs quite slowly on my 850 MHz laptop with 256 MB RAM but it does run OK. That might have been due to the cpuspeed service being enabled.
- I don't like the excessive amount of default folders in your home directory. I agree that they should be consolidated somewhat. I would suggest that Pictures, Video and Music should be put as a subdirectory of Multimedia.
- The new organization of the preferences is great and makes it much clearer than Ubuntus preference menu.
- It is lovely that you are including links to Magnatune and Jamendo in Rythmbox and Firefox ... the only problem is that their music is in mp3 format which we cannot play (without some hoop jumping)
Overall though, things are looking very good.
/Mike