February 2016 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 316666] UNetbootin support for creating live cd
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

Feature added by: Sharque uddin Ahmed Farooqui (safknw) Feature #316666, revision 1 Title: UNetbootin support for creating live cd openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sharque uddin Ahmed Farooqui (safknw) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: UNetbootin is the most popular and very easy to use application for creating live USB from live CDs. There are some alternate applications for creating live USB, but I never able to create live USB successfully. The biggest plus of UNetbootin over ImageWriter is, you can still use remaining space for other purposes. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316666

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[New: openFATE 314774] improve handling of efi based systems in yast installer
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

Feature added by: Rob Verduijn (robverduijn) Feature #314774, revision 1 Title: improve handling of efi based systems in yast installer openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Rob Verduijn (robverduijn) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Make the yast installer more efi friendly when dealing with efi based hardware. Make the yast installer detect efi based hardware. The partitioner should offer an efi partition scheme when it detects hardware that is efi based. ie mount the efi partition as vfat on /boot/efi Make grub2-efi the default when efi based hardware is detected. When selecting grub2-efi as the bootloader yast should warn when there is no vfat partition defined for the /boot/efi mountpoint. Cheers Rob -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314774

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[New: openFATE 311415] Add Peazip as packman has stopped providing packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

Feature added by: Narayansamy S (vazhavandan) Feature #311415, revision 1 Title: Add Peazip as packman has stopped providing packages openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Narayansamy S (vazhavandan) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Since packman is no longer providing peazip packages please add this to the distribution http://packman.links2linux.org/package/peazip -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311415

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[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 320513] Upgrade kbd to 2.0.2
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Feature added by: Pierre Lulé (plule) Feature #320513, revision 1 Title: Upgrade kbd to 2.0.2 openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Pierre Lulé (plule) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: While OpenSuse 13.2 had the latest kbd version, Leap 42.1 uses the outdated 1.15.5. This upgrade contains many fixes, and includes bepo layout, the most popular french ergonomic layout (which is already shipped in Leap's Xorg) Thank you. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This upgrade contains the bepo layout, which is french most used ergonomical layout. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320513

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[New: openFATE 320007] openSUSE Linux Leap 42.1: Add support for IPv6-only, in Wikipedia.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Feature added by: Driva Linux (drivalinux) Feature #320007, revision 1 Title: openSUSE Linux Leap 42.1: Add support for IPv6-only, in Wikipedia. openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Driva Linux (drivalinux) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: openSUSE Linux Leap 42.1, is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 12. So, openSUSE Linux Leap 42.1, by default, already supports IPv6-only, as well as the SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 12. Wikipedia - Comparison of IPv6 support in operating systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IPv6_support_in_operating_syste… (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IPv6_support_in_operating_syste…) openSUSE Linux Leap 42.1: https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.1 (https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.1) openSUSE Leap 42.1 Becomes First Hybrid Distribution: https://news.opensuse.org/2015/11/04/opensuse-leap-42-1-becomes-first-hybri… (https://news.opensuse.org/2015/11/04/opensuse-leap-42-1-becomes-first-hybri…) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320007

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