Unity

[viking60]

Well I am in this building my own stuff phase so I thought I'd give Unity a shot. And to make a long story short I have a booting Gnome3 based on Mandriva cooker.
Must dive in there again...

[rolf]

What I gather is that Unity has derived from Mandriva with Mathew Dawkins, also a key player for the OpenMandriva Foundation, at the helm. Are you saying you have built a Unity livecd based on cooker? I'd be worried that cooker is a little bit more rocky that usual, right now.
OTOH,

[viking60]

Yup that is what I am saying - basically. And cooker is really rocky right now. I cannot install nano and there is this X11 dependecy problem but still I have a booting Gnome3.
It is a bit rough but it works.
Once it is ok I will make a remaster to let everybody have it.
I still am practicing the use of smart package manager which is not bad - It is a good idea to learn it because you can use it on every distro.

[viking60]

So far I have managed to fubar the network settings completly on the first attempt so I did it again and now I have both Openbox and Gnome on it. In GDM there is a faulty text on the Login screen - Does anyone know where to change that?
I know I did it myself some years ago after an upgrade where the indication said 2009 even if the upgrade to 2010 was complete....
And I think I will stick with Smart as a sofware manager on this one (people who do not like it can install urpmi - but they should not really mix the use of the two).
And I have to make X autostart. But so far this has potential not only as a LiveCD but as a Branch, So I guess Mandriva can have the 2012 Blodax Gnome tech preview soon

[rolf]

Are you taking contributions for Ernie Blodax wallpapers?

[viking60]

Good one! Quality like that must of course be incorporated.
Unity soes only deliver a cli boot cd that has "just enough OS" after you have installed it you can start installing X and all the other stuff that you need. In the Mandriva repos this is a bit chalenging...so some workarrounds are neccessary
Anyway that smart manager works well and soon you have you DE up and can start fidling with it. I have gnome up and running and get the occasional boots without network connection.
This is easily fixed in the CLI by typing

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dhclient eth0

but you cannot release it like that.
I have installed drakconf (MCC) and hace adjusted some settings there. The plymouth splash looks a bit strange after I intalled the solar theme - but I do not care to much about that at this point.
So here I am fidling along

[viking60]

It was time to remaster my creaation and it looks like I have come over a bug there - so I am at a halt. Must wait for the smart people over at Unity to help me out...

[viking60]

I think the cooker repos are so buggy that the build is impossible at the moment - so I am still waiting for a reaction but it does not look good. There is also a definite possibility that Unity is buggy.
But all in all I have a fully functioning Gnome3 so Unity does work where Mandriva does not. Even if the MCC has a non working network section, most of the tools there do work too.
I had to cheat and start gdm in rc.local but that does not affect things negatively.
An I am definitely going to install the smart package manager on my other Mandriva installs.
It allows downgrade package, multiple downloads, broken package dependencies check +++
The remastering part does not work on the latest Unity version so I will put it on hold for now.