Here is my first stab at a list of stuff I would personally like to see in
Indiana:
1. Integration of community-derived hardware drivers not currently included in
Sun's distro.
2. Support *many* more SATA controllers and VGAs.
3. Some less brain-dead defaults:
-- Root user home directory under /root
-- Command completion at shell prompt using arrow keys (ksh93 and/or
bash).
-- Ability to use backspace key, whether I've logged in yet or not.
(No more trying to correct an password and getting ^H fscking it up). Surely
the longest running bug in Solaris history.
4. Support *many* more SATA controllers and VGAs.
5. Deprecated root user - set up initial admin user during install and
encourage use of pfexec / sudo for root privileges.
6. Support *many* more SATA controllers and VGAs.
7. ZFS options
-- ZFS boot and root by default
-- ZFS boot and root from any type of zpool (if Linux can do it, why
not Solaris???????????????? Hell, my Windows XP box at work boots off the
motherboard's fake-RAID 5 - ZFS needs to be demonstrably better than that.)
-- default to single zpool for everything, installer has easy-to-use
options to change. If you *really* want the namespace broken into 15 pieces
(cos disks are still small and expensive, right?), you can easily change the
defaults. n00b friendly!
-- Handle ZFS write more gracefully. Taking down an entire box, zones
and all, because one pool went south is very much a *bad* thing! Take the pool
offline and pass the error up the stack.
-- If the zpool won't mount, don't panic! Try to recover. YES, ZFS
doesn't need fsck-ing. YES, it needs to be able to recover the zpool somehow.
8. Support *many* more SATA controllers and VGAs.
9. UI enhancements
-- "happyface" boot by default (see
http://blogs.sun.com/setje/feed/entries/rss?cat=%2FSolaris)
-- Default install gives user choice of KDE and/or Gnome (JDS). CDE
available as add-on option.
10. Did I mention supporting *many* more SATA controllers and VGAs?
11. Give us back fast find please! "locate" in default install.
12. Support a wider range of audio, LAN, and other devices.
13. DVD playback using non-DVD cartel sanctioned decoder. The use of region
codes to prevent playback in certain regions is against WTO rules and is
barrier to fair trade.
14. Friendly names for drivers. I shouldn't need to google for the 3 or 4
letter driver name I need, add it, tweak driver_aliases.......: I want the
hardware to Just Work (TM).
15. Related to 14, add driver_aliases entries for hardware we already support
in the drivers but don't have the appropriate driver_aliases entries for. There
are *loads* of these! That would improve hardware support greatly - no new
drivers needed!
Andrew.
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