August 2014 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFate 305356] 802.1x authentication on wired network using YaST via wpa_supplicant
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Apr '15

22 Apr '15

Feature added by: Marius Tomaschewski <mt(a)novell.com> Feature #305356, revision 1, last change by Title: 802.1x authentication on wired network using YaST via wpa_supplicant openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Marius Tomaschewski <mt(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Some networks using 802.1x authentication on metallic Ethernet and I think it would be cool have a possibility, handle this connection type using YaST. The major problem to support this is that the wpa_supplicant is in /usr/sbin; it seems also to be difficult to move it to /sbin because of all the libs the wpa_supplicant is using. What would be required, is to extent the "supported_on_localfs" function to check this and start the interface in remotefs flow when 802.1x is enabled. That is, using remotefs on 802.1x authenticated interfaces would be not possible -- same as with NetworkManager. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305356

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[New: openFATE 314850] Ability to create encrypted partitions without using LVM
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Feature added by: Maciej Pilichowski (truemacias) Feature #314850, revision 1 Title: Ability to create encrypted partitions without using LVM openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Maciej Pilichowski (truemacias) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: With no LVM OS installer is too strict when it comes to choose what partitions can be encrypted. From technical POV only /boot partition really has to be left not encrypted but for the rest -- as root, /var, /usr it can be done. So please provide this option in installer. Current lack of support is strange and limits power of the Linux capabilities. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314850

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[New: openFATE 313171] enable full heap randomisation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #313171, revision 1 Title: enable full heap randomisation openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: set kernel.randomize_va_space=2 to enable full heap randomisation. Citing sysctl/kernel.txt: 2 - Additionally enable heap randomization. This is the default if CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is disabled. There are a few legacy applications out there (such as some ancient versions of libc.so.5 from 1996) that assume that brk area starts just after the end of the code+bss. These applications break when start of the brk area is randomized. There are however no known non-legacy applications that would be broken this way, so for most systems it is safe to choose full randomization. Systems with ancient and/or broken binaries should be configured with CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK enabled, which excludes the heap from process address space randomization. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313171

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[New: openFATE 314640] Add Deluge to the openSUSE software repositories
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Feb '15

19 Feb '15

Feature added by: Mircea Kitsune (MirceaKitsune) Feature #314640, revision 1 Title: Add Deluge to the openSUSE software repositories openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mircea Kitsune (mirceakitsune) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Although Ktorrent is a good torrent client, my favorite is Deluge for its simple yet complete interface and options. Although I can install it via the Packman repositories, I would suggest making it part of openSUSE as well. I use it for some time and haven't noticed any issues or bugs that should make it impossible to add it. http://deluge-torrent.org/ Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It's a good torrent client that many people might prefer. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314640

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[New: openFATE 310149] Optimize power consumption while running on battery
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Feature added by: Andreas Demmer (ademmer) Feature #310149, revision 1 Title: Optimize power consumption while running on battery openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andreas Demmer (ademmer) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently, openSUSE 11.3 does not much to preserve my battery while being unplugged. Intel's powertop came up with many good suggestions that cut the power consumption on my laptop in half! It would be quite a good idea to make the powersave profile do a little bit more than just dim the screen and throttle the CPU. Other suggestions: * turn bluetooth off, radio is always a battery eater * reduce USB polling * enlarge write cache * ...do other things that reduce wakeups to a minimum Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Mobile usage is more and more a key scenario. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310149

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[New: openFATE 311014] Create a wow effect for the openSUSE 12 (2012)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Feature added by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Feature #311014, revision 1 Title: Create a wow effect for the openSUSE 12 (2012) openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Next openSUSE will be 11.4. How can we have a really good reason to go to *12* and not 11.5 there after. We have to create something specially related to openSUSE (not GNOME, not Kde...). One thing or several, something that makes people say "wow!!" this could be, for example, among other things: * give the boxed version on a blu-ray disk * offer a blu-ray (24Gb) image as download * give the boxed version on a 24Gb USB flash drive * give the choice at boot (of the install support) to ** install on the hard drive ** install on a flash USB drive ** launch live from install support ** launch live from ram (and remove install support) ** install to a remote server, for example a cloud * drop the lizar and take a red dragon :-) ... Please add yours ideas :-) thanks jdd -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311014

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[New: openFATE 312946] Mate repo for openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Feature added by: ursan marius bogdan (creatura85) Feature #312946, revision 1 Title: Mate repo for openSUSE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: ursan marius bogdan (creatura85) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Around the world users still like the Gnome 2 DE. Gnome2 has forked now in to Mate DE https://github.com/Perberos/Mate-Desktop-Environment , so i think that beside a kde3 repo, a Mate repo for Gnome2 users of openSUSE is needed. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The Mate repo can be used by users who cant run Gnome3 or for users that don`t like Gnome3 bu still like Gnome2, old school look. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312946

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[New: openFATE 312190] Right click mount .iso
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Feature added by: Roger Luedecke (Shadowolf7) Feature #312190, revision 1 Title: Right click mount .iso openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Roger Luedecke (shadowolf7) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Make it so that one can merely rightclick a disk image to select "mount" to mount it. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312190

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[New: openFATE 313541] Get rid of SuSEconfig.ghostscript-cjk
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #313541, revision 1 Title: Get rid of SuSEconfig.ghostscript-cjk openSUSE Distribution: Evaluation by project manager Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There is no point to run that code after installation of every package (and it's not run when you use zypper or 3rd party tools anyways). That code should be only run as a part ofthe post-install of the package. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313541

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[New: openFATE 310963] Make openSUSE releases with more life time than 18 months.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Feature added by: Rafael Belmonte (EagleScreen) Feature #310963, revision 1 Title: Make openSUSE releases with more life time than 18 months. openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It would be nice if OpenSUSE would make special releases which have much life time than 18 months, as like as Ubuntu does with its LTS releases. Ubuntu release a LTS version each two years, and they have five years of support, updates, and repository life. OpenSUSE could adopt a similar policy about this. Believe me, many people love to can install an OS and not have to touch it in years, and this is a main reason about why I deploy Ubuntu LTS releases in some systems instead of OpenSUSE. Use Case: Robert call to his nephew, Richard, and request him to install Linux in his computer. Richard thinks in OpenSUSE as first choice, but when Richard tells Robert that OpenSUSE will expire in 18 months, Roberts ask Richard to install another distribution with more Life-time, because Robert is scared about facing an OS upgrade or installation, and Richard won't be in the country at that date. Mary wants to install a GNU/Linux distribution for the computer she uses in her business, she dudes about to install OpenSUSE or Ubuntu, and after thinking a few time about it, she decides to install Ubuntu LTS because she won't need to upgrade or reinstall the OS until four years, which is much comfortable for her situation. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: 18 months of support is not always enough for many users. Many people hates having to upgrade or install a new OS each 18 months. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310963

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