First, let me answer the question, "Why 8.0?" Simple - RedHat has a
tradition of not breaking binary compatability between minor releases
(ie 6.1 to 6.2). We now have glibc 2.2 released and a part of RH 7.0.
However, gcc 3.0 is not done yet, and will likely break binary compatability
with the current gcc 2.96 (which is really a cleaned up CVS snapshot).
That being said, here's a few of the things I'd be interested in seeing as
a part of a new RedHat release based around glibc2.2/gcc3.0/kernel2.4.
Base Stuff:
- Linux kernel 2.4 (probably somewhere in the 2.4.5 area)
- Glibc 2.2
- Gcc 3.0 (with libstdc++-3)
- XFree86 4.0.1d (or whatever the latest release from the XFree86 guys is)
System Operations:
- 100% FHS compliance - get rid of /etc/rc.d, and use /etc/init.d, etc.
- Offer ReiserFS during installation as a possible fstype (it is supposed to
be included in kernel 2.4.1), possibly also XFS & ext3 if available.
- devfs (/dev in its current form needs to be taken out back and shot)
- user-space USB daemon (to load and unload USB device modules as they are
plugged & unplugged)
- support for USB keyboards during installation (many complained about the
lack of this in RH 7.0)
Desktop Environments:
- Helix GNOME (their enhancements make it better than the stock RH releases)
- Add Nautilus
- Add Evolution
- KDE 2.0
- Non-GNOME/KDE setups:
- WindowMaker
- BlackBox
- AfterStep
- Enlightenment
- fvwm2
- twm
- olvwm
- mwm (from the lesstif packages)
Network Services:
- Mail
- MTA: Postfix
- SSL/TLS patches
- PCRE support
- LDAP support
- It's SO much better work with then sendmail..
- IMAP: UW IMAP-2000
- SSL/TLS activated
- POP3: choice
- UW POP3 (from IMAP-2000) with SSL/TLS
- Cucipop
- GNU-pop3d
- Webmail
- TWIG
- Web:
- Server: choice
- Apache 1.3.14
- mod_perl
- PHP4
- WebDAV
- mod_ssl
- Some sort of Servlet/JSP engine (Tomcat? Resin?)
- Roxen
- with crypto
- PHP4 as a pike module w/Roxen ZTS support
- Browsers
- Netscape 4.7x
- Netscape 6.x
- links w/SSL
- lynx w/SSL
- Downloaders
- Downloader for X
- the GNOME panel applet to match
- wget
- curl
- DNS:
- BIND 9
- News:
- INN
- Diablo
- Printing:
- CUPS (beats the heck out of LPRng!)
--
Jason Costomiris <>< | Technologist, geek, human.
jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
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