I realize that Intrepid is already well on its way and it's late for any change in direction. However, I still would just like to get my hopes for Intrepid out there. Maybe they'll have to wait for Jazzy Jackrabbit but hopefully not.
My main goal: Enterprise Readiness. I want a great desktop that I can start to seriously convince people to migrate to at work, away from Red Hat Enterprise. RHEL is a fine distribution but as a desktop it's simply too dated (even the Workstation versions). On the other hand, they really "get" the enterprise requirements and their systems are very simple for IT departments to deploy. For the most part they just work. I don't want Ubuntu to copy RH etc.; I want us to go beyond them! Note I don't care if I have to install a bunch of extra packages. I realize the CD has limited space and it needs to be geared towards a wider audience; that's fine. I can give people an "aptitude install" line they can cut and paste, or whatever. What I _don't_ want is a bunch of "after-market" customizations made by editing config files by hand, etc., which is what we have to do today. 1. Proper multilib By "proper" I mean LSB compliant, so it's portable/interoperable with all the other major distributions of Linux (RH, SuSE, etc.) Only Debian and, by extension, Ubuntu get this wrong. 2. Switch to autofs5 It's more than time to make this switch. For Hardy, this version isn't even packaged! 3. Fix NetworkManager I've ranted about this elsewhere and I'm tired, but if we insist on modifying every network-based application on the system to work with NM, rather than fixing NM to work well with all the other applications, then lets get on with it already! For example, autofs is still utterly unreliable with NM in Hardy if your maps are distributed via network protocols. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs/+bug/213574 4. Fix DHCP client The DHCP client in Hardy is missing a number of important DHCP options for proper enterprise readiness. Bugs are filed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dhcp3/+bug/74164 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dhcp3/+bug/246343 5. Fix NIS for DHCP NIS currently can't be configured by DHCP. More and more enterprises are moving to DHCP-based configuration for all clients, and Ubuntu is behind other Linux distros in this area. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dhcp3/+bug/246322 Then there are a few other things which I'm sure are being worked on: for example the fact that you can't browse Samba servers that require login anymore in Hardy, like you could before (some deficiency in the new Gnome vfs backend or something?). Anyway that's my personal wishlist. I'm willing to propose patches for the bugs in #4 and #5, although for #5 I can only produce the hook scripts, while the comments seem to imply that more detailed dpkg work is needed for a complete solution. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
