Fedora Core 3 Wishlist
Nathan G. Grennan
fedora-list at cygnusx-1.org
Sun Jun 6 15:45:05 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 14:44 +0100, Paul Duffy wrote:
> I'll bite:
>
> NTFS read capability compiled in by default.
>
I don't see this happening.
> An option to turn off 4kstacks in kernel config
>
This would be nice, though supposedly the main tree is going to do this
too.
> Make Wine work again dammit.
>
I have seen third party rpms of wine that work just fine.
> A proper package manager like KPackage or GnoRPM
>
A gui for yum like synaptic would be nice.
> An actual option (ie: one which doesn't break a gazillion dependencies) to
> make a non-preemptable kernel so kmail stops hogging my damn CPU.
>
As far as I know and can tell with a little research the Fedora kernel
doesn't have preemptable turned on.
# CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set from kernel-2.6.6-i686.config, part of
kernel-2.6.6-1.422
> 'Probe all SCSI LUNs' compiled in by default so my 6-in-1 card reader can read
> something other than Sony Memory Stick without a recompile.
>
This sounds good, though there is probably a good chance it would cause
trouble for more people. Probably the ideal way would be to make/rewrite
it to be a module.
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