Hey,
Just playing around with some LiveCD's, and figured I'd send the high-
level notes I made -
Fedora
o Nice bootsplash, and pretty sweet looking animated cursor
o Doesn't auto-login by default it seems
o 24px panel on top and bottom
o Panel objects for Firefox and Evolution, notification icon, fast
user switching, clock and volume control
o Spatial nautilus by default
o Icons for Computer, Home, Trash and 'Install to Hard Drive' on
desktop
o Preferences have their own submenus to split up the large menu
o Abiword and Gnumeric instead of OpenOffice, presumably because of
space
o No Thunderbird
OpenSuSE
o Pre-GRUB animation which looks nice, then rather ugly GRUB
progress dialog
o Much simpler bootsplash generally, though has some bugs dropping
down to
boot messages (but with nice black bubble background)
o Auto-login - same pointless progress icons on the GNOME session
splash
o Immediate first time login splash, full screen, telling me about
the project, community
support and build service
o Poor fonts generally, show up small and thin
o 24px panel at bottom, with panel objects slab menu, tomboy,
network status, screen resolution (sax2/yast),
volume control, clock and show desktop
o linux's Home (poor default username IMHO), Live Installer, Online
Help, openSuse, and Trash
on the desktop
o Browser nautilus by default
o Nautilus 'Open in Terminal' plugin
o Openoffice (hellishly fast for LiveCD, scary!), F-Spot, Banshee,
Evolution
o No Thunderbird
o Nice shutdown dialog, and shutdown boot splash
All in all, Fedora seemed much closer to the experience that we have
currently with OpenSolaris, and you'd probably not realize there was a
different operating system underneath. OpenSuSE did a better job at
polish generally I think. Both made VirtualBox have a fit during
shutdown.
Glynn
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