August 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFate 305312] OpenSUSE <= 11.1 Alpha 2 don't install on SD card
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell <aschnell(a)novell.com> Feature #305312, revision 1, last change by Title: OpenSUSE <= 11.1 Alpha 2 don't install on SD card openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Harald Welte <haraldwelte(a)viatech.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: [Please note that I'm working for the CPU+Chipset maker VIA and this is an actually important feature for the 'netbook' class of devices in the coming months] Recently, BIOS vendors have been starting to implement a 'boot from SD card' feature, much like they have added 'boot from USB memory stick' some years ago. The only SD-card host controller that I've seen this implemented for is SDHCI compliant host controllers. While this is a nice feature to support, for most systems it is just a gimmick and not something neccessarry. However, there are hand-held devices such as netbooks in the pipeline which do not have any other mass storage device. No hard disk and no IDE-attached flash disk or the like. They just have one (more likely two or more) SD card slots and you install and store not only your data but the entire operating system on that SD card. Furthermore, there are products like Samsung moviNAND which are basically a SDcard in a BGA package that can be soldered onto a PCB. So from a protocol and software point of view it is a SD card, but it is mechanically soldered onto the board. Such device have gained some popularity in ARM-based designs, but we'll likely see them in the x86 world, too. To make this happen, The distribution installation initrd needs to 1. include and auto-load the sdhc.ko and sdhci_pci.ko kernel modules 2. create the /dev/mmcblk* device nodes as per udev/hotplug events The actual distribution installation program needs to 1. recognize /dev/mmcblk* as block devices that can be used as target device 2. use a grub-install or similar program that can discover the bios drive number to /dev/mmcblk* device name mapping I have outlined the full details at http://wiki.gpl-devices.org/wiki/Installing_Linux_on_booting_SD_card -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305312

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[openFATE 306591] entropy daemons in 11.2
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Feature added by: Brandon Philips (philipsb) Feature #306591, revision 1 Title: entropy daemons in 11.2 openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Brandon Philips (philipsb) Description: Headless and diskless servers with limited input have relied on entropy added by interrupts flagged with IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM. However, this feature will be disappearing from the Kernel soon. One solution is to run a daemon to add entropy from userspace to the pool. Example daemons can be found here: * http://www.vanheusden.com/aed/ * http://www.vanheusden.com/ved/ * http://egd.sourceforge.net/ 11.2 should provide these or similar daemons as options for users who require additional entropy sources to keep /dev/random from blocking on read. The Kernel thread discussing this thread can be found here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/6/283 commit 9d9b8fb0e5ebf4b0398e579f6061d4451fea3242 What: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM Check: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM When: July 2009 Why: Many of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM users are technically bogus as entropy sources in the kernel's current entropy model. To resolve this, every input point to the kernel's entropy pool needs to better document the type of entropy source it actually is. This will be replaced with additional add_*_randomness functions in drivers/char/random.c Who: Robin Getz & Matt Mackall -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306591

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[openFATE 306616] test feature
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Oct '10

02 Oct '10

Feature added by: Michael Löffler (michl_test) Feature #306616, revision 1 Title: test feature openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michael Löffler (michl_test) Description: test feature -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306616

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[openFate 305706] Facebook chat/Pidgin Integration
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Feature added by: Kevin Dupuy (kdupuy9) Feature #305706, revision 1, last change by Title: Facebook chat/Pidgin Integration openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Kevin Dupuy (kdupuy9) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Facebook is currently the most popular social networking site, and it's chat functionality is being used as an IM client for many people. With pidgin-facebookchat (http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/) , Pidgin seamlessly integrates Facebook friends and chats as it would any other IM service. The plugin is already there, and licensed under the GPLv3 (see website above). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305706

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[openFATE 307482] Alien on Opensuse DVD
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Feature added by: Mircea Kitsune (MirceaKitsune) Feature #307482, revision 1 Title: Alien on Opensuse DVD openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Mircea Kitsune (mirceakitsune) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The Alien package converter would be a useful application to include on the Opensuse DVD, for easy installing on offline systems and including among other important tools that come with the distro (if licences allow distribution with Opensuse). Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Some Linux programs may not come with a .rpm installer. I believe portability and easy installation of software is important in any OS. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307482

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[openFATE 306571] Make project and package maintainers easily accessible
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Feature added by: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) Feature #306571, revision 1 Title: Make project and package maintainers easily accessible Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: obs automatically creates aliases package-$package@... , project-$project@... , maybe @hermes.opensuse.org . The mail should get a additional subject tag [pkg:$package] ... or [prj:$project] ... , and is Cc: ed to o-factory(a)o.o with this tag. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Currently it's a pita to reach package maintainers, either for the whole developer community on factory (because the mails are private and not archived) or for the maintainers (as they drown in the signal / noise ration on factory. Discussion: #1: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) (2009-06-25 14:46:16) Caution is needed to avoid spam What strategies do we have for this? can we benefit from the spam filtering that's done for o-factory@... ? #2: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) (2009-06-25 14:52:39) How do we deal with non o-factory@... subscribers? I see two alternatives: Block them from using the aliases (with a corresponding automatic reply). Or allow the posts, as they come from hermes.o.o --- and make hermes deal smartly with replies, e.g. by appropriately adding the original autor of the message to the bounced message. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306571

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[openFate 305267] Installation using Orca (screen reader) to Improve Accessibility
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Feature added by: Lukas Ocilka <locilka(a)novell.com> Feature #305267, revision 1, last change by Title: Installation using Orca (screen reader) to Improve Accessibility openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Darragh Ó Héiligh <d(a)digitaldarragh.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Original title: Accessibility for installation could be automated with better results. Users can currently press F9 at the boot screen to hear the boot options spoken. THis is a fantastic new feature and is one that OpenSuSE is the first to add. For this you should be very proud. However, I would ask that you further build upon this success by recognising that accessibility at the boot menu has been enabled and automatically start the Orca screen reader with also setting gnome accessibility to enabled. One further consideration should be taken into account. To enable Orca to access the installation screen, Orca must be run as root. However, if Orca is run as root, the rest of the desktop is not accessible due to permissioning issues. Therefore, the installation should be run automatically if the f9 key si pressed. Note, a similar feature excluding the accessible boot menu has also been added to Ubuntu 8.04. Note that they also have a key press (F5) to automatically enable assistive technologies for installation on their live CD. References: See bnc #417874 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=417874) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305267

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[openFate 305589] Checkbox "include user home projects in search"
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Feature added by: Pavol Rusnak <prusnak(a)novell.com> Feature #305589, revision 1, last change by Title: Checkbox "include user home projects in search" Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Pavol Rusnak <prusnak(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Here's one idea to start with: on the search page, have a checkbox labeled "Include user home projects in search" which defaults to OFF. Then at least you have one level of separation (between "official" and home projects) that is clear to both developers and users. And developers will be motivated to move their generally useful packages into an "official" project by the fact that the default checkbox is OFF. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2008-12/msg00088.html -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305589

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[openFATE 306968] rewrite yast in C#
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Feature added by: Sharque uddin Ahmed Farooqui (safknw) Feature #306968, revision 1 Title: rewrite yast in C# openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sharque uddin Ahmed Farooqui (safknw) Description: Yast is the best control panel for any ditro. It has become quite big and it has alot of modules and many more to come Since yast is wrriten in its own language ( http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Research/Make_YaST_Independent_of_YCP ) which quite few people know, so it is difficult others to get involved. I think we should start thinking about rewriting yast in a popular and advanced () language like C++, python or C#.... It will make development of yast faster and people find it easy to write modules according thier own requirements. My suggestion is to write it in C#. Writting it in such an advance can make app arch much simpler and also make it easy to maintain. My target relase is 12.0, sisnce it is not in option so I'm selecting 11.3 -- Sharique -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306968

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[openFATE 306646] add option to yast to disable tcp window scaling
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Feature added by: Jose Ricardo De Leon Solis (derhundchen) Feature #306646, revision 1 Title: add option to yast to disable tcp window scaling openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jose Ricardo De Leon Solis (derhundchen) Description: I live in Guatemala and like most people in countries like mine I don't have a broadband connection, so everytime I install openSUSE I see myself opening a terminal to disable tcp window scaling and opening kate with root permisions to edit /etc/sysctl.conf to make the change permanent. Though is not complicated to do, it has become an expensive operation to perform. So it would be nice for me and for those of us who need to disable this feature to have an option to disable it in yast. It would be nice to see it in the same tab in which one can disable ipv6. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306646

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