July 2013 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFate 305633] Support installation with encrypted root file system
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Aug '13

10 Aug '13

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> Feature #305633, revision 1, last change by Title: Support installation with encrypted root file system openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Requested by: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: One thing openSUSE is really missing, compared with other popular distributions, is the ability to install into an encrypted root file system so _everything_ is encrypted. While the manual installation / setup like described at http://en.opensuse.org/Encrypted_Root_File_System_with_SUSE_HOWTO works, it is still cumbersome and error-prone to setup - especially on systems with small hard disks like e.g. laptops. IMHO this subject gets more and more important not only for laptops but also for normal workstations with respect to the global decline of privacy protection. Since all the necessary software is in place and Yast already has the option (including the GUI) to encrypt /home this shouldn't be that hard to do and would be a great feature for 11.1 (especially if you keep in mind that this will be the base for the next SLE version and corporations love security functionality provided out of the box as an option). Important points are: 1. it should work with LVMs as well 2. it should be possible to automatically generate a key on startup to encrypt the swap partition (given, this would disable suspend) 3. one should be able to use the same password for several partitions so one has to enter it just one time instead of once for every partition. Related reports: * Bug #397411 - Hibernation won't work with encrypted swap * Bug #399298 - encrypt swap partions by default on every boot using a random key * Bug #166067 - sysinfo:/ does not list encrypted /home partition Relations: - Easy to use Full Disk Encryption (feature/id: 304470) - Support installation with encrypted root file system (novell/bugzilla/id: 415479) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415479 Discussion: #1: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) (2008-08-08 11:39:11) Full disk encryption is already under discussion in fate #304470. Sorry, but it's not public. #2: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) (2008-12-17 09:49:10) Reopened because the whole installer was rewritten but still no one cared to add this. I'm sorry, but this feature request is about adding root file system encryption to openSUSE. When, or if at all, you add it to SLE, I couldn't care less about it, but I surely don't want to wait till SLE 12 ;) Also I understand that you don't want to track and update 2 different locations but, since that feature is asked for quite often, IMHO there should be a location for openSUSE users to express their need (as in vote) for it and to CC themself to get notified on updates / when it finally is implemented. Making the fate entry public at https://features.opensuse.org/ would be nice to have as well (since it isn't actual rocket science and suse is one of the last distributions to add this feature there shouldn't be a reason to track this behind closed doors) but I can happily live without it as long as you leave this request open so people can vote for it & cc themself. Thanks a lot. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305633

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[New: openFATE 314469] ELI (Exit-Less Interrupts) support of kvm
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Feature added by: yi li (liyicybertan123) Feature #314469, revision 1 Title: ELI (Exit-Less Interrupts) support of kvm openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: yi li (liyicybertan123) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: ELI (Exit-Less Interrupts) support -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314469

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[New: openFATE 312466] Separate user and kernel log messages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #312466, revision 1 Title: Separate user and kernel log messages openSUSE Distribution: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Product Manager: (Novell) Technical Contact: (Novell) Technical Contact: (Novell) Technical Contact: (Novell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: SUSE used blogd to separate kernel and user log messages during boot. With systemd now everything is written to the kernel ring buffer. We should separate those again. Relations: - syslog (novell/bugzilla/id: 696963) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696963 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312466

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[New: openFATE 314465] Support the ARM architecture of KVM
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Feature added by: yi li (liyicybertan123) Feature #314465, revision 1 Title: Support the ARM architecture of KVM openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: yi li (liyicybertan123) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: support ARM: create VM on ARM architecture, include passthrough the amba device to the guest os. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314465

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[New: openFATE 310899] Bring back boot option 'repair installed system'
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #310899, revision 1 Title: Bring back boot option 'repair installed system' openSUSE-11.4: New Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Product Manager: (Novell) Project Manager: (Novell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: yast2-repair was dropped due to fate#308679, bnc#541793. I suggest we take the effort and recreate similar functionality in a maintainable way. Even if incomplete, this would be a good signal moving forward. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The repair feature was an unique selling point for openSUSE and SUSE based products. It gave users a feeling of reliability and confidence. It is absent in 11.3 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310899

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[New: openFATE 314971] Dynamic rearranging of widgets in YaST by UI
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Feature #314971, revision 1 Title: Dynamic rearranging of widgets in YaST by UI Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: For YCP code (or any user of libyui) it is not possible to arrange buttons depending on the available space. E.g. it does not know anything about the font size, the font metric, the button frame size, the actually available space nor is it run when the dialog is resized. So this has to be done in libyui. Relations: - buttons in partitioner impossible to read (novell/bugzilla/id: 615377) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615377 - Button labels are truncated in customize Partition UI (novell/bugzilla/id: 720839) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720839 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314971

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[New: openFATE 314932] YAST Samba Server module to replace SWAT
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Richard Colvin (allianux) Feature #314932, revision 1 Title: YAST Samba Server module to replace SWAT openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Richard Colvin (allianux) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Considering SWAT is not maintained to the level it should. Could the YAST Samba module be improved to be a full replacement of the Samba webpage management SWAT interface? When doing so it would be prudent to consider quick set up options for the Home networker (Workgroup with NAS and folder shares) and the more complex setup for the Enterprise sector (Domain Controller options) etc. At the moment I'm not sure what the YAST SAMBA Server module is intended to be? We seem to need to edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf file directly. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314932

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[openFATE 307422] New application, glc
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Zombie Ryushu (zombie_ryushu) Feature #307422, revision 1 Title: New application, glc Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Zombie Ryushu (zombie_ryushu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I wish for the video campturing package glc to be added to the Build Service. GLC captures OpenGL output from OpenGL applications. http://nullkey.ath.cx/projects/glc/wiki/HowtoInstall Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: recordMyDesktop will capture non-accellerated applications, but not Accellerated ones. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307422

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[openFATE 307408] Package request: Amaya
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Peter Gumbrell (gumb) Feature #307408, revision 1 Title: Package request: Amaya Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Peter Gumbrell (gumb) Description: Copied from old wishlist: Amaya (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/) : W3C's own all-in-one web editor / browser. Maintained for over 12 years. Features support for HTML, XHTML, XML, MathML, CSS, SVG and other emerging web technologies. Updated regularly and fully cross-platform. Provided under the W3C Software License (http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231) (open source). Wanted by: Website developers, especially standards-compliant ones. Amaya is a very capable web design tool. It helps users to create perfect, standards-compliant code, featuring collaboration tools and all regular formatting with both WYSIWYG and source views, and it also doubles up as a web browser. The only current alternative that provides this sort of functionality is Kompozer, but that's still in an alpha/beta state and is prone to modifying your HTML formatting and producing imperfect results, being aimed more at the WYSIWYG user. The packages provided by the Amaya project often fail to work and nothing happens when I try to run the program on openSUSE 11.1. Any chance somebody could look at this and provide it via the Build Service, or consider its inclusion in future releases? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307408

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[openFATE 306988] Pythonxy
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Claude Gouedard (cgoued) Feature #306988, revision 1 Title: Pythonxy Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Claude Gouedard (cgoued) Description: Tring to build a General Linux Package from an already existing one for Ubuntu, somehow conterpart of Windows Pythonxy Distribution at www_pythonxy_com. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306988

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