Initial impressions

[joe]

Last night I installed the severn beta on my $229 Fry's computer, a 
Duron 1100 with sis chipset - (I did add  512 MB RAM and an nvidia 
GeForce however).

The install was smooth and quick, and everything was detected. The 
choices were a bit more streamlined, and I could not make the fine 
grained choices that were possible in earlier versions, but the 
"everything" install is still an option and I suppose the kickstart 
method can still be used for ultimate customizability...

I was gratified to see postfix v2.0.11 among the updated packages, 
that's a big help.

All in all, it looks good - the desktop seems quite snappy at first 
glance; I will be trying out multimedia and 2.6 test kernels and will 
report back -

Joe