Druid wrote:
o subfs discussion ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Several people expressed concern that the automounting feature would only be available for GNOME and KDE - SUSE people explained that subfs is gone for good, and keeping it is not up for discussion.
Does that mean that one of the best features SuSE up to 10.0 had on the desktop (ok, MY opinion) will be gone in 10.1, with no real replacement? I sure hope that it does NOT mean We're back to "sudo mount /dev/cdrom" days...
- Suggested alternatives: supermount, autofs, create a console daemon that will do the job of gnome-volume-manager. The problems are that autofs is poor documented, supermount status is unknown, and the console daemon would need to be implemented, it simply doesn't exist now.
Waitaminute... SuSE decided to drop subfs, without even having a replacement? ok, i refrain from making the obvious comments here.
o SUSE Linux 10.1 Status / Roadmap - AJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- AJaeger brought us the latest major changes
* Kernel Changes km_ packages / non-GPL kernel modules
- The km_* packages are being replaced by the KMP, so packages can be built more easily independently from the kernel package build. Some information about kmp packages can be found in http://www.suse.de/~agruen/KMPM/
- Most developers of the kernel community consider non-GPL kernel modules to be infringing on their licensing/copyright. Novell does respect this position and refrains from distributing non-GPL kernel modules for future products. Novell works with vendors to supply alternative ways to provide the functionality that was previously only available with non-GPL kernel modules. So, the kernel-*nongpl package has been dropped and will not be provided anymore.
Which basically means that users of one of the best wlan cards (atheros) will have no wlan anymore. Whats the other modules in kernel-*-nongpl for? name suggests its for fritz! dsl stuff (which is quite prominent here in .de since you get them for free with your breakfast cereal eehh dsl account).
From what i've learned from those meeting minutes, most of the changes represent a step BACKWARDS for the user. Correct me if I'm wrong.
bye, MH