VL64-7.1 RC 3.1

OK, I admit that I've been out of the loop for a while, but here's my take on the RC3.1 of vl7.1 64-bit:

IT IS NOT GOOD!

-First off: ANIMATION during startup?!?... A system should be RELIABLE, not the show-off-case of childish games. I assume showing a nice graph is ok, but wasting resources on something as useless as an animation is NOT looking professional.

-The install-interface looks nice&clean, but I got no option to create a user; had to do that post-install. And the "advanced" option didn't offer any advanced options; I take it, this Work In Progress.

So far: nothing really serious.Annoying but no biggie.

However: -Localisation is CRAP! Still stuck with the retarded default US-keymap. Not even the [intl], let alone the ones with deadkeys(with or without the choice for the Alt-Gr option...)

-Permissions of some of the programs, installed through GSLAPT are not set right; Chrome had to be adjusted manually and the installed binary was not in the path. gparted is missing dependencies.

-The default vesa-driver doesn't work well with my Geforce 8400GS(Screen blacks out for some seconds at irregular interfalls...) and that brings me to:

-THE TUI DOESN'T WORK!!! Starting up in TUI won't let me in; It refuses to accept ANY login, be it root-account or regular user. Issuing <init 2> or <init 3> gives me the (nice, admitted) Vlocity-graph, but no prompt whatsoever And what happened to good 'ole "killx"?... Did I mention, the NVIDIA-driver doesn't install when in an X-environment?...

The system is actually slower than my 7.0 32 bit install.... Trust me: The AMD AThlon quad-core really is a 64-bit processor...

This after a mere 2 hours of joshing around with it. This is NOT a release-candidate. Calling it "beta" would be a stretch...

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