December 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFate 305664] Server CD
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Martin Schlander (cb400f) Feature #305664, revision 1, last change by Title: Server CD openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Martin Schlander (cb400f) Description: Providing an official openSUSE server cd - with some often used server software - and perhaps a lightweight window manager like icewm or similar - would be a great thing for a number of reasons. - openSUSE is generally considered a desktop centric distribution, providing a server cd would do a heck of a lot to highligt the excellent (home-)server qualities of openSUSE. - The few people that realize that the openSUSE DVD/netinstall actually offers text mode/server installation, are often discouraged by needing to download a full DVD, or do troublesome and slow http/ftp installation. - Server users are generally more technical people, it would be beneficial to attract more of these to the openSUSE project. - More people using openSUSE on home servers would likely have spill-over effects on SLES sales. - An openSUSE server cd, would be an excellent response to Ubuntu server edition and Microsoft Home Server. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305664

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[New: openFATE 308314] better wine integration
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Sharque uddin Ahmed Farooqui (safknw) Feature #308314, revision 1 Title: better wine integration openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sharque uddin Ahmed Farooqui (safknw) Description: There are times we need to use windows applications. Wine applications does not integrate well with with rest of desktop. There is no menu entry for wine settings. Also there should be menu for reboot wine. I use wine for Heidisql (Mysql admin tool) and some time for games. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308314

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[openFate 305582] Off-Line one click install (MSI for Linux)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Duncan Mac-Vicar <dmacvicar(a)novell.com> Feature #305582, revision 1, last change by Title: Off-Line one click install (MSI for Linux) openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Duncan Mac-Vicar <dmacvicar(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Idea from community member Raul Romero. Same concept as MSI packages for Windows but exploiting the One Click Install concept of openSUSE (and therefore inheriting the simplicity, code and security. Basically a compressed file which includes a repository inside, plus one click install information, and a script to trigger the oneclickinstall handler with the data as payload in the script. Therefore is a collection of rpms that can be installed detailed description is here http://en.opensuse.org/OSI There is already a prototype working. Example script: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/363315/MozillaFirefox.osi This requires some extra features in one click install and other pieces * ability to force OneClick to add the repo (the one inside the compressed file) Additionally I see other features: * ability to suggest an update repo for the installed bundle * support from build service to generate bundles * easy way to generate them locally Out of scope but interesting: * Ablity to trigger a YaST workflow (its own control.xml?) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This solves the business case of distributing service packs, applications, codecs bundles by just downloading a big file, 100% offline, supporting dependencies and repo signatures. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305582

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[openFATE 306907] Add support for Ksplice
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) Feature #306907, revision 1 Title: Add support for Ksplice openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) Description: KSplice allows it currently to apply most but not all kernel updates without the need to reboot which is especially great for servers. It's backed by a newly founded corporation that continually tries to improve it so hopefully sometime in the future a reboot wont be necessary for any kernel update. Fedora as well as Ubuntu already support it so openSUSE shouldn't stay behind. URL: http://www.ksplice.com/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306907

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[openFATE 307597] Courgette
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Feature added by: T. J. Brumfield (enderandrew) Feature #307597, revision 1 Title: Courgette openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: T. J. Brumfield (enderandrew) Description: Utilize Courgette for binary diff packages. * This will save on bandwidth costs for Novell and mirrors. * This will make updating quicker and easier for end-users. * This will especially benefit users who have capped bandwidth for downloading updates from their ISPs. * By making the update process easier, it encourages users to stay up-to-date, making systems more secure. http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software-updates-courge… (http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software-updates-courge…) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307597

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[openFATE 306528] Info banner for projects/packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

Feature added by: Jan-Simon Möller (dl9pf) Feature #306528, revision 1 Title: Info banner for projects/packages Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jan-Simon Möller (dl9pf) Description: I'd propose to add an info banner (as on the monitor page - aka "Adrians Blog" ;) ) to the projects or even packages. This would allow the new groups of packagers to leave status messages right in place for the projects. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306528

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[openFATE 308189] Consolidating terminology: update and upgrade
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

Feature added by: Karl Eichwalder (keichwa) Feature #308189, revision 1 Title: Consolidating terminology: update and upgrade openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Karl Eichwalder (keichwa) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: In the past, we just used the term "update" for all update related things, because we were told "upgrade" is suitable for hardware related upgrades only. With the advent of zypper, the term "upgrade" (dup, dist-upgrade) is back for upgrading the system complete from one version "n" to the next version "n+1" (yes, you can "upgrade" within one version, but that's a special case...). The term is fine and I'd like us to use "upgrade" in YaST and everywhere else where suitable. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Avoid confusion. ATM, I'm force to use different terms in the chapter of the manual, if I describe the same task. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308189

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[openFATE 308147] Simplify "Online update" in Yast
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

Feature added by: Birger Kollstrand (MrKane) Feature #308147, revision 1 Title: Simplify "Online update" in Yast openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Birger Kollstrand (mrkane) Description: In 11.2 there are two Online Update applications - one for configuration of online update - one for doing a manual online update I suggest that this is merged to one application which looks mostly like todays "Online update configureation" but has an aditional button on the page that when pushed does an online update. This will simplify the Yast GUI. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308147

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[New: openFATE 308343] external screen detection
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

Feature added by: marco mendoza (marcomendoza) Feature #308343, revision 1 Title: external screen detection Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: marco mendoza (marcomendoza) Description: Dear Suse comunity, Im proud to say Im getting involved into the Suse world, and even though Im a simple user of the OS systems, I found essential to have a performing OS in order to perform my current work. Whereas I got in love to Opensuse (I did start with it wo knowing anything...ubuntu or Suse...I have taken Suse and Im loving it), there is a couple of current options from comercial OS systems that I feel it is missing even in the last version of Opensuse. Particulary I would like to suggest the necessity of having an external screen detection system, I heart that some people manages to do it manually, but I think that such functionality should be part of an OS at the level of Opensuse. I have in in mind other couple of whishes, I will come with them in a following post in case my suggestions are taken in consideration. Thanks for commenting on this idea and the feasibility of it. greetings Marco A. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308343

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[openFATE 308138] Easy way to install corresponding debuginfo RPM for all existing packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

Feature added by: Silviu Marin-Caea (silviumc) Feature #308138, revision 1 Title: Easy way to install corresponding debuginfo RPM for all existing packages openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Silviu Marin-Caea (silviumc) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: KDE4 applications crash more often than they should. The bugreporting helper that pops up is not user friendly. It expects the user to know what particular debuginfo RPMs to install in order to get a useful bug report. It also expects the user to toil through a long "wizard" that asks a lot of questions. It's not cool to punish the user on top of an application crash. Does KDE hate us or what? The user shouldn't have to do anything more than giving the accept to send the crash information or not. Examples: Firefox, Windows. If KDE couldn't come up with something easier than this, at least SUSE should do something to work around it. My suggestion would be a way to install all debuginfo RPMs for every package that's already installed. This way, all bugreports will be useful. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We want to get statistic data so we can focus on bugs that crash KDE applications -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308138

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