Notes on conventional desktop tools

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  - `umount /var/cache/yum` is a prerequisite for any serious yummage
>
> I started work on a plugin that breaks each update/installation into
> its own transaction starting at the smallest and working its way up.
> This helps with constricted space installations and tmpfs mounted
> filesystems

Sounds good. I still think we shouldn't put *all* of yum's cache in tmpfs. :-)

> I would also suggest including volti along with this.

Pretty cool. I'd need work to hook up to our controls. I wonder if the
F14 builds use PA.

>>  - Flash pays a hefty price for its refusal to use Xv. Don't install pulseaudio.
>
> The newest flashplayer "square" beta makes considerable improvements
> in playback on the XO.  Ultimately I think it is our pathetic fpu
> performance the hurts us here.

Downloaded, tested it. I am not seeing any difference -- I suspect
that they're shipping the 'square' libflashplayer.so both in the
flash-plugin rpm (reports v 10.1.102.65) and in latest Chrome (which
claims to have 10.1.103).

Any specific tests?

BTW, in the settings panel of Flash it seems to read our mic and
camera just fine.

cheers,



m
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