[Hamara-devel] Hamara Sugam Testing

Raju rajudv at openmailbox.org
Sat May 9 16:31:43 BST 2015


On शुक्रवार 08 मे 2015 03:21 म.नं., Amardeep Singh wrote:
> Hi Raju,
>
> We are moving away from Ubuntu to Debian starting with Hamara Sugam. We
> have already created Debain repo for hamara-sugam. I guess it will be
> better if you start testing on that release.
Can I have any link download the Debian based release?
> We will try to clear out bugs already raised on Ubuntu based
> Hamara-Sugam in new debian based release.
>
> Thanks,
> Amardeep
>
> On Friday 08 May 2015 03:09 PM, Raju DV wrote:
>> Hey Everyone,
>>   I installed Hamara Sugam on my Netbook a day before yesterday. I am
>> sharing here some of my observations and some Questions as well.
>>
>> We will be having Sugam for lower end hardware, and I think my netbook
>> fits at the right place.
>> To begin with, the required brief specifications of my netbook.
>>
>> Model: Samsung N150-JP0GIN
>> Make: 2010
>> Processor: Intel atom N550 Dual core (1.5 Ghz)
>> Ram: 2Gb
>> Screen Size: 10.1 Inches
>>
>>
>> My experience with the Installation.
>>
>> 1. I Installed using a bootable Pendrive. The Installation went smooth
>> and completed in around 10 minutes. I usually have my operating
>> systems localized in Marathi as that Is also one of our goals to bring
>> Hamara to more people who dont know English or are not well versed
>> with It. I even do the Installation in Marathi. What I observed is
>> that the timezone selection screen during the Installation was set to
>> India by default as the Installation language was selected as
>> Mr-India. I have reported a bug #100 [1] around a month before with
>> the Hamara Linux product about Default timezone selection in Hamara
>> Linux Installation. If you have taken a look over that bug before. We
>> can conclude that the timezone settings are dependent on the Language
>> selected during the Install. So the bug#100 might be solved by
>> changing the default language for Installation to en-IN from en-US.
>>
>>
>> 2. Another issue is bug#68 [2] which I reported back in February for
>> Hamara Linux and has been marked as resolved, is still existing with
>> Hamara Sugam. Should I report a separate bug for this on Hamara Sugam
>> or should we reopen the resolved bug?
>> For the people who have not seen the bug before. It is about the
>> Improper alignment of text in Ubiquity Installer slide shows.
>>
>>
>> About the post Installation experience.
>> 1. And the blue Grub screen is there as well. I don't know about
>> others but blue screen reminds me of the Blue screen of death on
>> Windows.  I reported the bug#95 [3] for Hamara Linux and it is being
>> worked upon. Again the same question should I report a separate bug
>> for it with Hamara Sugam?
>>
>> 2. The Splash screen while starting the OS is similar to the ubuntu
>> splash screen, just replacing the ubuntu logo with the hamara logo.
>> Everything else is same. Even the brown color of the splash screen is
>> present. We should do some work here to make the splash screen more
>> unique to us.
>>
>> 3. The login screen design. Who ever did it, kudos to him/her. It was
>> just awesomely done. The choice of colors and design was just perfect.
>>
>> 4. And when I am on to the Desktop, everything just looks perfectly
>> placed and well designed. It was running fast and smooth on my
>> Netbook. Like my netbook just got rejuvenated with speed.
>>
>> 5. The display controls and volume controls were not working. I can
>> get a work around for this. But hoping that It should work by default.
>> It didn't worked by default with ubuntu as well till Ubuntu till 11.10
>> . After 12.04 everything worked out of the box.
>> I'll be reporting a bug for this. Although I can make it work, It
>> should work out of the box for the end user.
>>
>> 6. The LXDE panel was not having a battery indicator panel. I'll
>> report a bug for this as well.
>>
>>
>> Hoping your reply on above points. If you guys can share your
>> experiences with Hamara sugam till now, that would be great.
>>
>> Raju
>> ___________________
>> Links
>> [1] http://bugs.hamaralinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100
>> [2] http://bugs.hamaralinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68
>> [3] http://bugs.hamaralinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95
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