September 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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[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 307746] Yast2-UI to mount remote Samba/CIFS-shares
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Feature added by: Alex Müller (Larx) Feature #307746, revision 1 Title: Yast2-UI to mount remote Samba/CIFS-shares openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Alex Müller (larx) Description: At the moment there is no working Yast2-module to simply mount remote SAMBA/CIFS shares the "unix way" (i.e. with a directory entry in the filesystem a la "/network/sharename/"). (yast2-samba-client seems to offer this as "expert option", however I don't get it to work.) The different desktop environments offer access with the "smb:/"-protocol, however this doesn't work really consistently. E.g. it doesn't help with consoles and scripts, and even some desktop apps, namely KDE's own Amarok, refuse to use the smb:/-protocol. So I think a Yast2-module - which should be simple to do, as it would only be a frontend to /etc/fstab or /etc/samba/smbfstab - to mount SAMBA shares should be implemented. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307746

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[openFATE 307512] Improve Qt package manager searching
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

Feature added by: Rastislav Krupansky (ra100) Feature #307512, revision 1 Title: Improve Qt package manager searching openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Rastislav Krupansky (ra100) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Qt software manager might use functionality "search as you type". I mean, searching would give me a relevant result already during writing of the name package. This feature is already available in GTk software management (Synaptic also), but for QT isn´t. That means no more writting package name and hitting enter, or clicking on the "Search" button is needed, searching would done over the names ;-) See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482578 Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Faster, more comfortable and simplified searching. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307512

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[openFATE 306412] Easy and unified way to enable/disable optional/experimental features
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Dec '16

03 Dec '16

Feature added by: Tejun Heo (teheo) Feature #306412, revision 1, last change by Title: Easy and unified way to enable/disable optional/experimental features openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Tejun Heo (teheo) Description: When new things are introduced, it always generates certain amount of controversy. It's sometimes due to the quality of the initial implementation; other times, the feature itself isn't appealing to large subset of the userbase. Examples of this type of features include compiz, beagle and pulseaudio. Given that features which generate a lot of controversies are desktop related as they are the most visible and that as a distro openSUSE wants to ship and experiment with new features, having an easy and unified way to opt in and out of controversial features would resolve a lot of griefs without harming test coverage too much. I suggest installing new features by default and ask whether the user wants to opt in and out of those features from ggreeter. It wouldn't add another step while still providing choices upfront. Also, the same selection should be available through control pannel. This feature would be superset of fate#305296. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306412

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[openFATE 307844] Aria2c as DEFAULT Download Manager
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

Feature added by: John Shand (jshand2008) Feature #307844, revision 1 Title: Aria2c as DEFAULT Download Manager openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: John Shand (jshand2008) Description: Since in openSUSE 11.2 aria2c is going to be the main download manager, wouldn't it make sense to also have a GUI for this application for KDE or GNOME? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307844

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[openFate 305556] rpm -q --whatrecommends foobar
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Feature added by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com> Feature #305556, revision 1, last change by Title: rpm -q --whatrecommends foobar openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: For debugging purporses why a package is installed it would be nice to have a "--whatrecommends" query option for rpm and not only "--whatrequires". -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305556

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