February 2016 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 313201] Jitsi
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Bogomil Shopov (bogomilshopov) Feature #313201, revision 1 Title: Jitsi openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Bogomil Shopov (bogomilshopov) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Jitsi is an audio/video and chat communicator that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, AIM/ICQ, Windows Live, Yahoo!, Bonjour and many other useful features. Jitsi is Open Source / Free Software, and is available under the terms of the LGPL. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We need to push FOSS alternative to Skype and Jitsi is the bes solution so far. It supports a lot of features described here: http://jitsi.org/index.php/Main/Features Audio and video calls with perfect quality Desktop sharing and streaming -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313201

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[New: openFATE 313113] Different Splash Screen from Default Wallpaper
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Andres Silva (anditosan) Feature #313113, revision 1 Title: Different Splash Screen from Default Wallpaper openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Andres Silva (anditosan) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There should be a difference between the splash screen on openSUSE and the wallpaper. Users could confuse the finished/loaded desktop with the actual splash screen. Additionally, we could create a different type of loader for the splash screen. That way we show users that the desktop is still loading and they get to "discover" the openSUSE desktop. Thank you Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: I would like openSUSE to have better visual clues for new users who may not be so familiar with the booting process of our distribution. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313113

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[New: openFATE 319717] yast-btrfs-maintainance module
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Mikhail Kasimov (k_mikhail) Feature #319717, revision 1 Title: yast-btrfs-maintainance module Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mikhail Kasimov (k_mikhail) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hello! Removed from https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953644 I'd like to offer the schema for, possibly, yast-btrfs-maintainance module, which combines btrfs settings by parsing matched conf-files and snapper window. Schema (first variation) and its summary are in yast-btrfs-maintanance.txt (attached in 953644 as dedicated file to avoid alignment fails). Preamble: I've not a pleasant experience of using btrfs (hdd was overloaded by snapshots and than I got kernel panic). Fortunately, it happend on vbox. I had no info how to define dedicated volume for snapshot storaging, how to schedule the period of taking snapshots (or even how to turn it on/off), how to define behavior when zypper updates\installs\uninstalls packages and so on. So, I made up the conception (hope, useful) of general btrfs-maintaining YaST module, which parses the matching btrfs' configs and incorporates maintaining of snapper database. And existed yast2-snapper module can be replaced\upgraded with this general module. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/319717

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[New: openFATE 314870] add support for booting from a software raid1 partition
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Marco Manini (jjletho) Feature #314870, revision 1 Title: add support for booting from a software raid1 partition openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Marco Manini (jjletho) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Yast installer already supports the creation of software raid (md software raid i mean) partitions and correctly manages root partition on raid1, lvm or a combination of both of them, but it does not support at all booting from a /boot partition which is on a software raid1 volume. It allows you to create a redundant /boot partition, but it does not manage grub2 correctly. The result is a system which cannot boot with the first (/dev/sda1) member of the raid volume in a fail state. yast installs grub2 only on the first raid member. The feature I propose is to enhance yast installer allowing it to manage /boot raid1 partition with grub2 so that a system can boot also with raid1 /boot partition with a failing member Use Case: directly from yast installer create a partition layout like this: sda1, sdb1 -> /dev/md0 -> /boot (ext4) sda2. sdb2 -> /dev/md1 -> swap sda3, sdb3 -> /dev/md2 -> lvm volume group -> / (ext4) sda3, sdb3 -> /dev/md2 -> lvm volume group -> /home(ext4) and correctly install grub2 so that the system is able to boot also with a failing raid1 member. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314870

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[New: openFATE 313130] Support btrfs RAID1 mirrored partitions
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Bat Pul (batpul) Feature #313130, revision 1 Title: Support btrfs RAID1 mirrored partitions openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Bat Pul (batpul) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: In release 12.1 openSUSE adds support for btrfs. The btrfs filesystem supports several RAID configurations on the filesystem level. This is great since now it is no longer necessary to use Multiple Devices or other mechanisms to support RAID filesystems. Mirrored filesystems are a means to increase data reliability and read speed. However, btrfs mirrored filesystems are currently not supported during installation nor in yast2. Since it is not trivial to add such a filesystem to a openSUSE 12.1 system this is a useful addition. In addition there should be integrated support in openSUSE to detect and recover from situations where one partition fails which is part of a btrfs RAID1 filesystem. Use Case: It is far from trivial to accomplish integration of a RAID1 btrfs mirrored filesystem in the system. Such a filesystem can be created with: mkfs.btrfs -L mylabel -m raid1 -d raid1 /dev/sda4 /dev/sdb4 This filesystem can then be mounted with: mount /dev/sda4 /mnt However, after reboot openSUSE 12.1 fails to mount this again with the identical command. As a response it gives the following two unclear messages in dmesg: btrfs: failed to read the system array on sda4 btrfs: open_ctree failed The trick is to specify both devices as: mount -o device=/dev/sda4,device=/dev/sdb4 /dev/sda4 /mnt The fstab entry should then become: /dev/sda4 /mnt btrfs device=/dev/sda4,device=/dev/sdb4 1 2 Then after reboot the filesystem is mounted. Knowledge of these facts and integration of btrfs RAID options during installation and in yast2 would help. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313130

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[New: openFATE 311037] let partitioner create faster RAID
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Bernhard Wiedemann (bmwiedemann) Feature #311037, revision 1 Title: let partitioner create faster RAID openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Bernhard Wiedemann (bmwiedemann) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Both mkfs.ext[234] and mkfs.xfs have options to tune the filesystem for striped RAID (i.e. RAID0/RAID10), so it would be nice if yast2/disk could make use of it. The options are -E stride=x -E stripe-width=y and -d sunit=x,swidth=y notice that units of above sizes may vary. There are several sites out there describing how to choose the proper values for x and y, e.g. http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Optimizing_Performance -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311037

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[New: openFATE 312412] get rid of $HWCLOCK setting
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #312412, revision 1 Title: get rid of $HWCLOCK setting openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The $HWCLOCK variable in /etc/sysconfig/clock stores information that is redundant with /etc/adjtime's third line. There should be only one place to store that information. Programs reading /etc/sysconfig/clock: * warpclock from mkinitrd * /etc/init.d/boot.clock from aaa_base * yast2-country Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: consistency -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312412

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[New: openFATE 312792] Volume Control
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Ben Williams (BenQ23) Feature #312792, revision 1 Title: Volume Control openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ben Williams (benq23) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Volume Control: if possible, please make volume go up my 1's instead of in a random order. Music, sound, and sound effects are either to loud or to soft. Thank you!! :) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312792

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[New: openFATE 313363] Mad Wifi repositories requested to be included with DVD install
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Amy Swanson (freespiritamy) Feature #313363, revision 1 Title: Mad Wifi repositories requested to be included with DVD install Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Amy Swanson (freespiritamy) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I think it would be good to include the mad wifi repositories as part of the yast system on the DVD install that you download from the site. In addition to the repository already being included.. have the mad wifi drivers be present as part of the start up install program so that in the event of an atheros card, or other card that uses the madwifi, being detected, these drivers are automatically installed upon detection... then no ethernet cable would even be needed. Use Case: I have had a couple crashes and every time I have to find an ethernet cable (something I don't normally use AT ALL) for my laptop, google and look for the wiki page that talks about the mad wifi repositories (so glad they have one) copy the URL and paste into my repositories, then look for everything related to my atheros card (mad wifi is the only think that will make it work). This process would be so much simpler if it would just be included from the start.. I'm sure that if I have this problem there are others that do also. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Would be much more efficient especially in this day when so many of us use laptops and only laptops. Ethernet cables are very inconvenient to have to use and look for just so you can get your wifi working... if the drivers are already there then this need is eliminated and the whole process is much more streamlined and trouble free, even enjoyable... then it should work out of the box for most folks. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313363

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[New: openFATE 312364] Qualcomm Gobi Wizard, making mobile broadband simple.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Roger Luedecke (Shadowolf7) Feature #312364, revision 1 Title: Qualcomm Gobi Wizard, making mobile broadband simple. openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Roger Luedecke (shadowolf7) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: My HP un2400 Gobi device is supported and should work. Whether it is due to USB mode switching or that the gobi_loader does not work correctly I do not know. There should be a simple wizard like that which ships under Windows (VZW connection manager) to allow me and other users in the same situation to easily make us of the Mobile Broadband we pay for. This is the final thing keeping me from wiping Windows off my netbook entirely. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Use of Mobile Broadband is not likely to decline, but rather increase with the proliferation of affordable increasingly powerful Netbooks. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312364

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