My Wishlist and strategic thinking for v2.4

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

I wouldn't say that getting other users to migrate to Linux is our primary
goal, but it's important enough. And thus we need to ease their transition
as much as possible. Backwards/Sidewards-compability is the issue here.


For us hackers/admins/bofh's or whatever:

o Read/Write NTFS & HPFS
o Read/Write FFS
o Read/Write XFS
o Support for the file-systems in Digital Unix/AIX/Solaris etc.
o Working VFAT
o Read/Write VMS file-system (No, I don't know what kind of filesystem it
is)
o NFS v3 (no sane network administrator would possibly want to downgrade
from NFS v3 to NFS v2)
o DevFS (I think it really deserves to get in as soon as possible; Richard
Gooch has made a brilliant job with it)
o ReiserFS
o LVM
o Full Large Disk/Userspace/Process/File etc. support


And for the mainstream users:

o Completely new xconfig and rewritten configure/menuconfig with
warning-messages
o Better Documentation for everything
o Startup-screen should output all messages to the log-console instead of
the main-console; the main console should just output a "booting" message
or similar, or even better show a penguin boot-screen. Rationale: We who
need the messages know how to access them, the main-stream messages
doesn't need them. And if they do, they can simply press Ctrl+F12 to bring
them on-screen...


And miscellaneous:

o A new thought-through and consistent sound-driver interface (work in
progress?)
o Moving all the crap out of /proc (/proc should be processes, nothing
else) and into a new directory (/kernel /system or similar). That
file-system should be a separate compile-time option


Things that might even need to get backported into v2.2:
o USB-support
o DVD-support
o Pentium III-support
o PowerPC G4-support


Platform-specific:
o Support for the NuBus PowerMacs
o Full support for m68k Macs
o IEEE-1394 (FireWire)


/David Weinehall
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