Hi,

My comments about the candidate release features:


-2.6 based system w/ udev

Every ppc livecd kernel is 2.6 based. udev is untested. No time to test 
before release.

-better smp kernel support

The smp kernel on 2004.1/x86 is the only one that boots my virtual pc. 
No problems on PPC. Please try not to generalize problems.

-boot time dmesg saving support (save it to a file, /root/dmesg 
perhaps?)

You're not serious about "/root/dmesg", are you?

-manpages linked from the handbook (man2html?) or man in stage1

man on livecd: yes (man in stage1: no (no ufed in stage1 either)

-portage package that contains release spec files

emerge catalyst?

-DVD iso

Every user who sends me an empty DVDR gets one by regular email.

-X livecd

An experimental one is scheduled for 2004.2

-portage rewrite in C

This is without doubt the worlds worst candidate release feature 
request list I've seen.


Best regards,

Pieter Van den Abeele


On 10 May 2004, at 16:53, John Davis wrote:

> <2004.2_request.txt>