December 2010 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 310920] The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders for opensuse 11.4
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

Feature added by: Jedi Beeftrix (Jedibeeftrix) Feature #310920, revision 1 Title: The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders for opensuse 11.4 openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jedi Beeftrix (jedibeeftrix) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: To quote the torvalds: "Yeah. And I have to say that I'm (very happily) surprised by just how small that patch really ends up being, and how it's not intrusive or ugly either. I'm also very happy with just what it does to interactive performance. Admittedly, my "testcase" is really trivial (reading email in a web-browser, scrolling around a bit, while doing a "make -j64" on the kernel at the same time), but it's a test-case that is very relevant for me. And it is a _huge_ improvement. It's an improvement for things like smooth scrolling around, but what I found more interesting was how it seems to really make web pages load a lot faster. Maybe it shouldn't have been surprising, but I always associated that with network performance. But there's clearly enough of a CPU load when loading a new web page that if you have a load average of 50+ at the same time, you _will_ be starved for CPU in the loading process, and probably won't get all the http requests out quickly enough. So I think this is firmly one of those "real improvement" patches. Good job. Group scheduling goes from "useful for some specific server loads" to "that's a killer feature". Linus" OldCpu on the opensuse forums seemed to indicate that this might be a possibility for opensuse 11.4. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2637_video&num=2 I sincerely hope so! How about it? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310920

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[New: openFATE 310829] allow ipv6 in 11.4
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

Feature added by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Feature #310829, revision 1 Title: allow ipv6 in 11.4 openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Description: Hello, Allow ipv6 in 11.4. reason is this http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1895850/vint-cerf-urges-isps-deplo… Thanks -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310829

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[New: openFATE 310928] shutdown kde to console does not work
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Feature added by: tys lefering (twlevo) Feature #310928, revision 1 Title: shutdown kde to console does not work openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: tys lefering (twlevo) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: booting in console, then startx with kde desktop but leave via menu does not shut down X11 back into console mode, now switching to another vt to get in a console. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310928

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[New: openFATE 310924] LDAP authentication through user certificates
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Feature added by: Gregor Dschung (chkpnt) Feature #310924, revision 1 Title: LDAP authentication through user certificates Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Gregor Dschung (chkpnt) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The user should be able to authenticate himself via x509. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: More and more companies are using smartcards or software certificates for the communication with external customers or for their internal services. So we do. In our LDAP directory, there isn't a field like 'password', but the public key of the users' certificate. It would be nice, if a user could use the OBS appliance with his smartcard or software certificate, so we don't need to maintain another user management. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310924

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[openFATE 302047] Integrated package searching for YaST and build service
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Feature changed by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #302047, revision 39 Title: Integrated package searching for YaST and build service openSUSE-10.3: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) reject date: 2007-10-05 14:30:28 reject reason: still open partly - postpone the rest. Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important openSUSE-11.0: Rejected by Michael Loeffler (sprudel24) reject date: 2008-06-10 14:01:45 reject reason: not done for 11.0 Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important openSUSE-11.1: Rejected by Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) reject date: 2008-09-04 18:17:10 reject reason: No time for it, but we have the one-click installation supported from web interface. Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) reject date: 2010-11-08 16:58:51 reject reason: Not done for 11.3. Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable + openSUSE Distribution: New + Priority + Requester: Desirable Requested by: Duncan Mac-Vicar (dmacvicar) Product Manager: Michael Loeffler (sprudel24) Project Manager: (Novell) Engineering Manager: (Novell) Engineering Manager: (Novell) Developer: (Novell) Documentation Editor: (Novell) Technical Contact: (Novell) Technical Contact: (Novell) Technical Contact: (Novell) Technical Contact: (Novell) Technical Contact: (Novell) Technical Contact: Andreas Bauer (abauer12345) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: You perhaps remember the hacks Benjamin did to support "click and install" packages (similar to Click'n run) [1] Benjamin has another article in his blog that is worth to read. He has been providing a wepage to search packages from repositories like packman and build service. Now he presents an architecture to desentralize the system, using web services an indexers, and he shows working prototypes of YaST modules for searching, and others like web and irc-bot clients http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/bweber/entry/package_search_developments/ I hope we can provide a strategy and roadmap to integrate these cool ideas and _code_. [1]: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/bweber/entry/next_generation_package/ Discussion: #1: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) (2007-05-03 15:29:13) see also 300898 For 10.3 the installer should be able to make use of an external list of repositories. I suggest to host such a list at http://packages.opensuse-community.org/ together with the search engine, which is already there. #3: Klaas Freitag (kfreitag) (2007-07-12 10:46:54) Implementation on openSUSE BS already started, Adrian knows the details. #4: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) (2007-07-12 11:30:04) We work on two approaches atm: * YaST will support (thanks to mvidner) additional repository offers during installation. The list gets hosted on our servers, the open question is how to maintain this list. * The build service End-User interface will offer .ymp files based on pattern submissions for easy installation. #5: Stanislav Visnovsky (visnov) (2007-07-30 20:13:09) (reply to #4) Adrian, please, drive this. The feature for YaST should be done now (let me know if anything is missing). #6: Michael Loeffler (sprudel24) (2007-11-22 11:26:30) This sounds like very useful. And it might be possible the community (in this case Benji) helps implementing this. #7: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2008-06-06 10:56:28) Apparently not done - please reject and postpone for 11.1. #9: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) (2008-06-18 17:08:16) This is something what we should bind to the new upcomming software portal. The software portal will be the End-User interface for searcing and installing software and replace http://software.opensuse.org/search . However it is still in development and not yet set up. Therefore I am unsure if this can happen in time for 11.1. On the other side, the 1-click-installation and integration into the web interface is done since quite some time. The user can use the cool technologies from Benjamin since 10.3. + #10: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2010-12-02 15:31:30) + This should be done with a software portal. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/302047

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[openFATE 307523] Make hard disk encryption configurable
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Feature added by: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) Feature #307523, revision 1 Title: Make hard disk encryption configurable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) Description: E.g. currently aes-cbc-essiv instead of aes-xts-plain is used because it is the upstream default although it has a number of disadvantages. That is perfectly fine as long as one could change the default. In short the following features are needed: 1) Possibility to override used options during installation (also should be setable via autoyast / kiwi so one doesn't have to change the setting on every new install). 2) Possibility to override used options during partition creation. 3) Possibility to set the used default options in some /etc file. IMHO a simple text field in the partitioner to override the used options would perfectly suffice. Then safe & restore that field via autoyast & kiwi and be done. The systemwide default should be stored in some /etc/sysconfig file. Related bug report: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534644 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307523

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[openFATE 307485] Xinerama in Yast
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Feature added by: Roberto Gibertini (rgibertini) Feature #307485, revision 1 Title: Xinerama in Yast openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Roberto Gibertini (rgibertini) Description: YaST urgently needs an update to its monitor configuration utility. It has issues allowing resolutions set in X to be chosen for display, and it would be really, really, really nice if it had multi-monitor support. Expecially when working with proprietary drivers, the use of sax2 to configure multimonitor and xinerama is really difficult, this can be a great problem for starting users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307485

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[New: openFATE 309048] Add keyboard configuration module in yast
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Feature added by: Alvise C (alvise_cav) Feature #309048, revision 1 Title: Add keyboard configuration module in yast openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Alvise C (alvise_cav) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Keyboard can be configured either during installation, either with SaX2, but not from Yast UI A module Yast -> Hardware -> Keyboard should be added to bring this functionality Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: SaX2 has been removed from Yast2 UI, so there is no way left to configure a keyboard from Yast. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309048

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[New: openFATE 310844] Fix the "Where do we need to improve?" topic of the board meeting
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Feature added by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #310844, revision 1 Title: Fix the "Where do we need to improve?" topic of the board meeting openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Description: The board meeting has a topic about where we do need to improve. This recieves too little attention from a too small group. We need to fix this. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310844

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[New: openFATE 310869] Yast module to manage classpath and enviroment variables
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Feature added by: Umar Ahmed (umar420e) Feature #310869, revision 1 Title: Yast module to manage classpath and enviroment variables openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Umar Ahmed (umar420e) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There should a yast module which support managing and editing of classpaths and environment variables. This makes opensuse more user friendly when an application is extracted from tar files or it is compiled from sources. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310869

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