Hello Crew,
after having had positive experiences in migrating machines out of aptosid to siduction, I decided to address a "bells&whistles" machine for a first DVD KDE install, a HP xw8400 workstation with two X5150 cpus.
The install went smooth and fast as usual, even if I much appreciated the new web interface which is allowing for more flexibility than the old sidux one. I'm right now writing from this machine, which is running perfectly
Still, I'm missing something in terms of filesystem choice during install.
1. I'm *totally* happy with the introduction of XFS in the available choices (which has since long become my first choice on debian for its resilience to damage), BUT I'd like to format it with my own parameters, otherwise it might not perform well enough; I usually format with:
mkfs.xfs -l internal,size=256m -L <LABEL> <PARTITION>
therefore it would be beautiful if one could also choose to insert the advanced parameters in case of newfs; otherwise it's always possible to format it from command line, but then it would be appreciated an option "not to format" the partition, like the one present in debian install; I also miss the final button for changing .sidconf (this also could have solved the issue).
2. Why is JFS not present anymore as a choice?
3. Any plans to implement ZFS, at least for non root partitions, considering that it's run with fuse?
Last, but off-topic, I noticed that this KDE install, even though it's DVD sized, is still almost having a "KDE-lite" approach (e.g. no libreoffice inside): is this the way is meant to be or, considering that there are still other 3.7GB free on the optical support, are there plans to include (at least in KDE flavour) a more comprehensive choice of applications "out-of-the-box"? The meaning of my question is: of course we're all an apt-get away from anything but, also considering quicker full-desktop deployments, wouldn't it be a pity to waste all that free space on a DVD?
Thanks and BIG compliments for the terrific job!