On 16:07 Mon 20 Aug?, Juergen Daubert wrote:
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:09:14PM +0200, Simone Rota wrote:
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Apart from the toolchain / kernel updates, I'd like to see some additional work for 2.4.
- UTF-8 X vote: 0
That's ok for me, but I don't see any improvement making it the default. Most people don't need it, and there are still some apps which are not UTF-8 ready, e.g. aterm or mc. Adding a wiki page how to switch to UTF-8 might be more helpful. And, of course, applications should be build with wide-charcater support if possible.
- Xorg 7.3 X vote: +1
- LiveCD X vote: +1
Finally, I think we'd benefit from setting an estimated release date / period, i.e. the beginning of october is my guess. ok
regards Juergen
#include <standard_Im_not_a_dev_disclaimer.h> I'd like to see the addition/re-addition of some stuff in 2.4 that I feel would be very useful for various people. In no particular order: - gnuparted; for those who can't part with other, inferior operating systems, also handy in rescue situations. - vwdial; Why did this get dropped of the iso? Apparently we still have some users relying on dial-up, or at least we had - until they tried upgrading to 2.3. - libdevmapper Another, more debatable point is the use of a more standard adherent shell as the default, with the removal of bashisms from the rc scripts as an addon. I've used dash quite successfully in the past for this, which is also used by debian/*buntu. It's a lot faster and smaller than bash, however, if used as /bin/sh it will trigger misbehaviour from broken software that assumes /bin/sh == /bin/bash. So far I've only heard of cdega having this issue though - I've come across nothing that complained so far myself (fwiw). cheers //treach -- Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubbard