Linkat 4 - Release Notes

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These release notes cover the following areas:

Installation
  1. Installation modes
General
  1. Linkat Documentation
  2. YaST and X.Org Configuration (Keyboard, Mouse, Graphics Board, and Monitor)
Technical
  1. Default Mount Option: relatime

Installation

Installation modes

Two different images of Linkat had been published, they mainly differ on the installation process.

One of them permits booting directly from the DVD unit, allowing the user to test Linkat before installing it. Just execute the desktop application 'Live installer' to effectively install the system to the hard disk.

The other image starts the installation application just after booting, thus no live test machine is started.

General

Linkat Documentation

YaST and X.Org Configuration (Keyboard, Mouse, Graphics Board, and Monitor)

In the past, YaST offered an configuration interface for the graphical desktop (X.org) such as keyboard, mouse, graphics board, and monitor. During the installation a suitable xorg.conf was created.

In most cases it is no longer needed because the Xserver is now able to automatically configure the system. If it fails for your system, try the following steps:

  1. Check whether an old /etc/X11/xorg.conf file exists. If so, move it away and start your desktop again.

  2. If it still does not work, run sax2 from the command line and execute the configuration procedure.

  3. To adjust hardware components to your personal needs, start the GNOME desktop control center or Configure Desktop in KDE, and configure your devices such as the mouse or keyboard. The display configuration dialogs also let you configure multiple monitor setups. To configure multiple monitors, in other desktop environments, use xrandr.

For more information, see the Desktop User Guides shipping with openSUSE. They are also available from http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation

Technical

New Default Mount Option: relatime

The kernel by default mounts file systems now with the relatime option and thus updates inode access times relative to modify or change time. This is especially advantageous on desktop system.

If you want to keep the old behavior, set the strictatime option with the YaST partitioner or directly in /etc/fstab.