February 2016 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 314944] hamradio: freedv now compiles on openSUSE 12.3
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Mike Corbin (mike021361) Feature #314944, revision 1 Title: hamradio: freedv now compiles on openSUSE 12.3 openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mike Corbin (mike021361) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: fredv r1231 will compile with openSUSE 12.3.The necessary libraries are not yet available in most distros, but all are open source. See freedv.org for details and the link to svn. Thank you. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Let us keep linux 'on the cutting edge' of new ham radio technology and openSUSE there too. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314944

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[New: openFATE 313851] Add NetworkManager to laptop pattern
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) Feature #313851, revision 1 Title: Add NetworkManager to laptop pattern openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: During an installation NetworkManager should be preferred instead of traditional /etc/init.d/network at least for laptops. It seems that NM runs faster than traditional ifup things and in overall it fits the standard laptop usage more, than static network configuration. Optimizing a boot time, aka 2 second boot (http://lizards.opensuse.org/2012/07/26/optimizing-a-boot-time-aka-2-second-…) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313851

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[New: openFATE 313510] Wipe all vt's leaving just graphical one...
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Nelson Marques (ketheriel) Feature #313510, revision 1 Title: Wipe all vt's leaving just graphical one... openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Nelson Marques (ketheriel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Free your mind from your own personal usage and think on the vast majority of Desktop users with openSUSE; Do we need so many tty's? Honestly, many people don't use, so lets just ditch them and leave the system only using 1 single graphical vt. One step closer to a real desktop... and yeah, everyone does it for years... So YOU might actually bring innovation amongst linux vendors... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313510

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[New: openFATE 312972] zypper update license handling
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Eduard Avetisyan (dich) Feature #312972, revision 1 Title: zypper update license handling openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Eduard Avetisyan (dich) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: With every flashplayer or java update "zypper up" asks to confirm the license agreement over and over again. It would be nice if the license needs confirmation ONLY if it has changed since the last "Agreed" action. Making the "-l" option default is not a very good idea since sometimes the license may change in an unpredictable way, but if it's unchanged it gets really annoying. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312972

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[New: openFATE 312974] Add Ext4 LVM snapshot support to Snapper.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Roger Luedecke (Shadowolf7) Feature #312974, revision 1 Title: Add Ext4 LVM snapshot support to Snapper. openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Roger Luedecke (shadowolf7) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Very simple. The way Snapper can work on Btrfs, enable it to work that way with the backup snapshots of Ext4 filesystems using Logical Volume Management. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312974

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[New: openFATE 312690] YaST Software Management -- Install from cache
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Brian Sherson (shersonb) Feature #312690, revision 1 Title: YaST Software Management -- Install from cache openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Brian Sherson (shersonb) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Since Software Management allows users the option to save downloaded packages, it would be nice to also give the option of installing a saved RPM. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Suppose a user, by intent or otherwise, installs a new version of a particular package that has become available in one of the repositories. If the user decides revert to the previous version that was saved from before, it may be convenient to select the old version from Software Management, provided the package exists in the cache. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312690

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[New: openFATE 314845] Tool to write to I2C EEPROM
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Nov '16

21 Nov '16

Feature added by: Jean Delvare (jdelvare) Feature #314845, revision 1 Title: Tool to write to I2C EEPROM openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jean Delvare (jdelvare) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There is currently no tool to write to I2C EEPROM. Such tools exist in the upstream i2c-tools package, but the code quality is not good enough for these to be included now. The following steps are needed before we can include an EEPROM writing tool from i2c-tools: * Check the features and code quality of the 3 tools which are available upstream. * Pick the most promising one and delete the rest. My first impression is that eeprog is the best, except for hardware access which should be rewritten. * If the selected tool lacks features implemented by the deleted tools, implement them. * Integrate the new tool in i2c-tools's build system. Then we can include it into openSUSE. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314845

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[New: openFATE 313386] Support of par2 package
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Winfrid Tschiedel (WinfridT) Feature #313386, revision 1 Title: Support of par2 package openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Winfrid Tschiedel (winfridt) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: openSUSE supports the par package, which is outdated. Posts on the USENET contain very often additional files, so you can repair corrupted posts using the par2 cmdline command. par2 is available on other Linux distributions like ubuntu, fedora, ... You can already find par2 rpm on https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=par2&project=home%3Adavjam7… So, please integrate par2 package into the netx openSUSE distribution. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313386

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[New: openFATE 314471] Distribution of GRUB2 emulator by a package
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Markus Elfring (elfring) Feature #314471, revision 1 Title: Distribution of GRUB2 emulator by a package openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Markus Elfring (elfring) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I would appreciate if the software "GRUB2 emulator" will also become available for openSUSE directly by a package. Can anything be reused from an Ubuntu installation source (http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/grub-emu) ? See also my initial bug report ' Distribution of "grub2-emu" by a package? (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=780638) '. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314471

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[New: openFATE 309007] Add more scientific packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Ricardo Gabriel Berlasso (RGBsuse) Feature #309007, revision 1 Title: Add more scientific packages Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ricardo Gabriel Berlasso (rgbsuse) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Right now, openSUSE have quite few "scientific packages". We have freemat on Education, xmgrace ... and a few more. But, for example, octave is only on Packman and SciDAVis is nowhere (for 11.2 at least). There are no packages for Scilab either, nor for PAW... Use Case: A physicist (or engineer) working on University that needs a good Linux distro for his/her work. Nowadays, even if openSUSE is more stable and reliable than fedora, the scientist will choose the later because its larger set of scientific packages. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To give openSUSE more presence on universities and research centers at "final user" level. Now openSUSE and its derivatives are found in clusters to run simulations (I've seen some of them) with ad-hoc programs, or in supercomputers, but not in the office computer for the single researcher. With its focus on stability, openSUSE could be the perfect "scy distro" but the few "heavy duty" scientific packages available is against this. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309007

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