Fedora core 3 - Feature requests --------------------------------------- I am not sure whether it is too late but I will post my thoughts on the upcoming fedora core 3 release. Things that will not be there ------------------------------------ Since many people using bring this up I am adding this upfront to avoid unnecessary stuff. All these have potential legal issues and probably will not be included Mp3 playback DVD playback Mono NTFS support All your favorite software :-) Feature Requests --------------------- * Organisation of packages CD reorganisation to realise the goals of seperating the packages as core, alternatives and extras. This would mean that Fedora core would just be 1 CD where we will get the defaults for many stuff. The rest would be available in other CD's not part of core. Those who download all the CD's will have no difference and will be able to choose the stuff they like instead of the defaults So what would be defaults? Desktop Environment - Gnome (redhat focus) Browser - Mozilla Firefox? (1.0 would be release PIM - Evolution Office Suite - Openoffice.org Media player - Totem with gstreamer backend Web server - Apache FTP server - vsftp DNS server - Bind Email server - Postfix? ( easier, better security) Database server - MySQL Alternatives Desktop Environment - KDE Browser - Mozilla,Konqueror, Ephiphany PIM - Kontact Office applications - Koffice, Abiword, Gnumeric Email server - Sendmail, Exim Database server - PostgreSQL, Firebird? Extras Alleg - alleg.sf.net Documentation ---------------- Basic docs like Installation and reference guides. Security ---------- Disable as much as services by default as possible or provide an option during installation to do it the way the user wants with good defaults. Policy ------- Stay as close to the upstream version for all packages including desktop enviroments. If only Gnome is provided in core we dont need to similar interfaces for gnome and kde. Bluecurve could be the default theme though since its a well known feature Community ------------- Open up cvs/subversion access to packages Include a wiki Provide packaging guidelines Allow volunteers to include packages. Get upstream developers involved in bug reports and packaging if possible Incorporate the fedora planet for blogs Provide links to all fedora related sites Misc ------ * Include a groupware suite - Kolab ? * Command line equivalents to system-config-* for what is missing * System-config-packages should have an option to install third party packages * Udev - Enabled by default ( Gnome volume manager requires it, good thing) * SELinux - Enabled by default ( needs good exposure) * NX Support other than VNC - see http://dot.kde.org/1088363665/ ( Better speed, more features) * Include clamav for scanning windows viruses (Useful for Hetrogenous networks and web hosting) regards Rahul Sundaram __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
