Linux Wizard

1 week ago, I submitted to http://ideas.mandriva.com/en/ my proposals/ideas for Mandriva 2010.0. In order to let people comment on them, I will post the list of my submissions. I was planning to add more, but unfortunately, I'm presently in holidays ( at La Baule ), and so don't have time to do this :-). So here are my proposals :

• UXA and KMS support in drakx11">UXA and KMS support in drakx11">UXA and KMS support in drakx11 : As Mandriva 2010.0 will support UXA ( for Intel graphics cards ) and eventually KMS, the goal is to allow to enable/disable them directly from drax11 UI.
• Add runlevel 3 boot menu entry in grub options menu : This would allow to boot Mandriva directly in text mode without having to edit the kernel options.
• UPnP support in drakfirewall/shorewall : UPnP support may be useful for the applications supporting UPnP and thus willing to open a port on the firewall. A whitelist of applications couldbe used to only allow some specific applications to do this. Combined with a mdsum binary verification ( can be done by rpm ), this would prevent most trojans/backdoors possibles issues.
• Full NFSv4 support in Mandriva tools : Presently mandriva tools can't cofnigure a NFSv4 server, and doesn't handle idmapd configuration, especially in auto-install mode.
• App Store like GUI or how to make store.mandriva.com being a software channel distribution : This is related to my previous article about this question : About Apple App Store like GUI for Linux.
• reduce urpm tools executables by merging urpmq with urpmf, and urpmi.removemedia with urpmi.addmedia : The goal is to use the number of urpm tools executable and have more coherent naming and options.
• Integrate Moblin components : As Mandriva is part of the Moblin project, I guess that Mandriva could proposed a Moblin version.
• Use tracker with Nepomuk support instead of Beagle : Tracker aims to support Nepomuk, so as Mandriva have been leading the Nepomuk development and integration on the KDE side, i found normal to use Tracker with Nepomuk support under Gnome instead of Beagle.
• Integrate grid/cloud computing components : Mandriva is involved in a grid-computing project ( Xtreem OS ), so it could be interesting to integrate some of its components in the standard distribution notably Xtreem FS.
• Better Nepomuk integration : the title said all :-)
• One click multimedia content sharing support : Presently with one click, a user can share a directory using CIFS or NFS protocol under Mandriva. Now the goal is to allow to do the same thing, but this time using UPnP-AV thus allowing Mandriva to be a media content provider.
• Flicker free boot : the title said it all. Since migration to splashy, we can see big flickering during the boot process, notably before X start. This si a regression compared to the bootsplash situation.
• Switch to Tomoyo Linux as Mandatory Access Control system : Tomoyo have been integrated in upstream kernel, Apparmor not : the choice is easy.
• easy iSCSI support ( GUI ) : This could be a very useful feature in grid/cloud computing, or allow to have low cost NAS for SOHO.
• Compcache support notably in kernel-netbook : This feature, really useful for netbook, allow to improved kernel perf under low memory systems.
• Move some Mandriva tools to github or Google Code : Why not ? ;-)
• Group support in consolehelper : This would allow to have more fine grained permissions for Mandriva tools access.

I tried to be as exhaustive as possible, but many ideas are missing, but I'd rather wait for another release. From firsts comments and rumor, 2010.0 will be an exciting release :-)