October 2015 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 316744] Network installtion
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Feature added by: Hylton Conacher (notlyh) Feature #316744, revision 1 Title: Network installtion openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Hylton Conacher (notlyh) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There is no ability to begin an installation of any openSuSe distribution without the need for external media ie CD/DVD, Flash drive, PXR server. I believe the future of new hardware will move to devices without optical drives that may or may not have USB ports. The hardware will however have a network card and either an RJ-45 or wireless connection. I have personally seen Netbooks released in 2012 that had no optical drive, 1/2 USB ports, a RJ45 port and had wireless. Giving these to people who have not experienced computing or possibly do not have the funds for a 5Gb flash-disk, one has to ask how they are going to embrace openSuSe when they get tired of Windows Starter. How can a person with such hardware install opensuse when they visit the opensuse website, WITHOUT the use of CLI or other GUI software to make a boot medium? I believe there should be a Java file, as most systems understand Java that a new user could click on. Once this had been clicked the opensuse servers would download a start install script that, when the machine was rebooted would prompt the user, before the existing OS starts, about the ability to begin installing opensuse over a network connection. The first few initial downloads need to be small in size and be used to create a 'virtual machine' of the install that despite many Internet connection disconnects, still manages to resume its download. The user must not need to install VM software first. Once the user has completed the establishment of the 'VM version' of opensuse, the user is requested to agree to add the opensuse VM machine as their new host OS. If the user agrees the machine is rebooted and the user is asked to specify the location of the new install, just in case he might want to dual boot or has just added another partition/disk. The installation goes ahead, downloading from the Internet whatever software it needs, despite possible interruptions in network connectivity. The machine powers itself off and on its next power on the user is greeted by GRUB indicating that he may either boot into opensuse, or if they elected to during the install, boot into their old OS. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316744

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[New: openFATE 312476] automatic daily fstrim for SSD
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Feature added by: vincent lejeune (vlj) Feature #312476, revision 1 Title: automatic daily fstrim for SSD openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: vincent lejeune (vlj) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: As SSD are becoming more affordable they are also becoming more widespread on laptop and desktop computer. Modern SSD supports the TRIM functionality. This functionality delays costly erase operation to speed up performance ; these erase operations are then executed by batch (this is SSD equivalent to defragmentation). SSD can only run at their full potential if this functionality is also supported by kernel and/or userland on the OS. Sadly TRIM support by kernel is not optimal yet. Erase operation are not launched automaticaly and this impacts overall SSD performance. A cron script written at setup phase could launch fstrim program each night; this program performs the erase operation needed not to struggle the SSD. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312476

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[New: openFATE 316559] package Rawstudio for 12.3 and/or 13.1
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Feature added by: dave dewey (caprus) Feature #316559, revision 1 Title: package Rawstudio for 12.3 and/or 13.1 openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: dave dewey (caprus) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I've installed rawstudio in the past and enjoyed using it, however I can't find it packaged for 12.3. I even tried installing from the 12.2 repo on the off chance it might work, but it does not. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316559

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[New: openFATE 317743] YaST PKGBUILD
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Feature added by: Aidan Collier (WokSearedBacon) Feature #317743, revision 1 Title: YaST PKGBUILD openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Aidan Collier (woksearedbacon) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: As part of YaSt, there would be a program which would help users to build their openSUSE packages from source, and easily expedite the process of packaging linux programs for the openSUSE distribution. Use Case: To given an example, say a project had put out a linux program in the form of a source tarball, and the program has not yet been built specifically for RPM (or zypper). The YaST packager would make building this program into an openSUSE package much easier to do for most any user, and with Build Service integration, allow users to add new packages to the RPM repositories. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To allow users to easily build new packages for openSUSE, and allow more packages to be contributed to the Build service or another openSUSE repository. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/317743

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[New: openFATE 316872] Support exfat out of the box
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Feature added by: Flavio Castelli (flavio_castelli) Feature #316872, revision 1 Title: Support exfat out of the box openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Flavio Castelli (flavio_castelli) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Latest version of openSUSE (13.1) cannot mount disks formatted using exFAT file system. There's a GPL kernel driver provided by Samsung which seems to be working fine: * https://github.com/dorimanx/exfat-nofuse * http://sfconservancy.org/news/2013/aug/16/exfat-samsung/ There are already packages for that inside of OBS: * http://software.opensuse.org/package/exfat-nofuse It would be nice (and really user friendly) to have these packages shipped with the default kernel *or* to have them within the official openSUSE repositories. Use Case: A friend of mine gives me a usb key with some documents I need to copy. The usb key is formatted using exFAT, because that's what Windows proposed to my friend. I plug the usb key into my openSUSE computer and I'm immediately able to view its contents. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Because latest windows version are pushing usage of this file systems. openSUSE users must be able to access usb disks/drives without having to mess around with the kernel/zypper. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316872

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[New: openFATE 314643] Enable Delta RPMs for Tumbleweed repository
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Feature added by: Marko Kaznovac (kaznovac) Feature #314643, revision 1 Title: Enable Delta RPMs for Tumbleweed repository openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Marko Kaznovac (kaznovac) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Tubleweed is offtenly changed, and updating eats a lot of bandwith/time. drpm-s could make updating more fun :) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: save bandwith -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314643

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[New: openFATE 312959] Make the best working desktop default
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Feature added by: Stefan Seyfried (seife) Feature #312959, revision 1 Title: Make the best working desktop default openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stefan Seyfried (seife) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: For every distribution, make the best working desktop default. Right now, KDE is default even though it is obviously broken. Let's decide for each release, which desktop is the best working and give that one the honor of being the default. Which metrics to apply to decide which desktop is good working and which one is not is open to debate, we could go for things like "open bug count" for example. Maybe we should limit the selection to "general purpose desktops" and leave out the more esoteric ones like awesome, larswm and such, but decide at least among * KDE * GNOME * LXDE * XFCE Which are all full featured desktops ready for end users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312959

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[New: openFATE 313040] Prettier boot process
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Feature added by: Anomyous Anomyous (jcat123) Feature #313040, revision 1 Title: Prettier boot process openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Anomyous Anomyous (jcat123) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Right now, the boot process looks kinda ugly. systemd makes a jumble of codes and the splash screen is boring. For 12.2, the pretty green dones and the red faileds should be brought back to the boot process and the geeko logo should do more than roll it s eye a little. Have it do something, like shift color sort of like a progress bar or walk around as the machine boots up. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313040

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[New: openFATE 312694] Font Rendering
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Feature added by: Melvin Jose (melvinjose) Feature #312694, revision 1 Title: Font Rendering openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Melvin Jose (melvinjose) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Improve the font rendering on opensuse especially on KDE. Bring it upto the standards of ubuntu at least. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312694

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[New: openFATE 312673] Enable Sub-Pixel-Hinting
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Feature added by: Stefan Frank (stefanf74) Feature #312673, revision 1 Title: Enable Sub-Pixel-Hinting openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stefan Frank (stefanf74) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: To improve the look of fonts, enable the Sub-Pixel-Hinting. The patents that lead to subpixel font hinting being turned of by default in the freetype2 library have now expired! So please enable this feature in version 12.1. Ubuntu (since 10.4?) has already enabled it. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312673

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