I have interest on some of the ideas for gsoc and also have many ideas of my own, some more out of reality than others. I'd like to hear your opinion: Porting openSUSE to either MIPS/ARM platform: I like the challenge/adventure of other architectures and their possibilities but some people just don't seem to think they are worth the work. I while ago I was talking on the opensuse-project with a guy that pretty much assured the future endurance of the x86 over anything else. I think that now there is an oportunity now for this for the new netbooks. My only real problem is that I don't have hardware to experiment with, just qemu. Distributed package and updates system: I distributed bittorrent-alike system for distributing regular updates and packages would increase the download speed and reduce the network workload on central nodes, and give certain degree of resilience of the package/update system against server downtime. The concept itself is not new at all, but never has been used for active package and updates install over the net (as far as I know at least). Boot time optimization: probably the most innocent and error prone of all :-). Is important on laptops/notebooks/netbooks and for regular people who is hasty to go nowhere fast. The boundary between luxury/vanity and real world need is difficult for this one. Minimalistic User Friendly Yast Interface/Plug&Play Background Facilities: A simple user interface common tasks oriented, Homer Simpson friendly user interface, with a background demon service that automatically runs when new hardware is connected so the install of modules and binary blobs is pretty much automatic and the common user is relieved from thinking too much. Linux distributions in general have suffered the stigma of "user unfriedliness". A perception that anything just requires too much time and pain to get to work that is not worth the trouble. The non-technical user need certain hand holding and emotional reassurance that things are going to work or a explicit explanation of why it does not work. Not some cryptic message /var/log/messages. Also application sofware needed to work with the hardware should be installed if possible/needed. Well this is a less geeky idea, but a needed one as well as potentially controversial. I have other ideas, but lets see this ones for the moment. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org