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Klaus Steinberger wrote:
> Hi,
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>> What do people want to discuss?
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> Some point's I have:
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> - SL 5.2
> Has it better HVM support in XEN ?
> Not clear from the TUV beta releasenotes
> (for example both the GPL and Novell PVM drivers do not work with 5.1)
>
> - Kernel Modules:
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> On a kickstart install which includes also the security repo, the actual
> kernel will be installed, but there is a big chance that old afs and
> fuse modules will be installed instead of the correct ones.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to change them to use the dkms?
>
> - SL on the desktop:
> It's really good to have a long term support also on Desktop, but some
> applications are a so fast moving target that this let come up the Ubuntu
> Creep:
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> - firefox / thunderbird : can we switch to 2.x
>
> - Openoffice - Version 2.3 or 2.4?
>
> - Basing on CentOS beginning with SL6 ?
>
>
> Sincerly,
> Klaus
>
I will put these into the plenary.
One note on the kernel modules ... we see that at Fermi with SLF 5 because that
is how we do things by default, and have done quite a lot of research into it.
It's pretty complicated. In the end, I have a script at the end of SLF 5
installs that cleans things up.
Troy
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