Kirya [.net]

I have had some fun during these 2 rainy days thanks to VirtualBox.

I have first tried the latest Fedora 8 (upgrading from the previous release). Though the upgrade was painless, I was stucked with the Linux Guest Additions which weren’t working, due to SELinux being enforced (by default or by mistake, I am not sure).

I had even opened a bug for this issue…

Then I have tried OpenSuse, which also needs tweaking so that the additions run ok - the solution was on the VirtualBox forums (disabling concurrency for init scripts by changing RUN_PARALLEL=”yes” to “no” in /etc/sysconfig/boot file).

Well, I haven’t extensively tested these distributions, but I particularly like the new Nodoka theme used by default in Fedora. I have even begun to work on Debian packages for both the GTK+ and the Metacity themes (I know there is already someone working on this, I will e-mail him to propose a co-maintenance if he accepts).

On the other hand, I was very surprised that OpenSuse uses GNOME as default WM (maybe it isn’t new, but I haven’t seen a Suse desktop for years). Their gnome-main-menu is really nice, but really unusable for me!

I guess I will try more distros in the coming weeks to compare with Debian - for now, I get the feeling I have made the good choice, except maybe for the default artwork, which is hopefully improving…