ideas

[Ed <df@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

after the interview for ONLamp I was curious to try DF and so I've installed 
it. I've a list of ideas and suggestions that maybe could be interesting.


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1) Please choose the complete and official project name: "DragonFly", 
"DragonFly BSD" or "DragonFlyBSD" ?

Browsing the website I see all of them and also "uname" is not what I've 
expected.

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2) I think that it could be a good idea to include a package with (src tree + 
cvsup + cvsup.conf) in the ISO, so that you install it during the 
installation process and then you are ready to update the src tree with 
cvsup.

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3) I think that it could a good idea providing privacy by default, using 750 
permissions for every user home directory.

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4) If I'm not wrong DMA for CD drives is disabled by default. This means that 
the installation from the CD takes more time than it could. I think that 
setting somewhere in the installer sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" could improve 
the CD drive throughput and reduce the time needed.

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5) I've read that some developers are working on amd64 platform. If I'm not 
wrong amd64 CPUs let you use the NX bit even in 32bit mode if they're used 
via PAE. I think this could be a good way to introduce a memory protection 
system, without waiting for a complete release for 64bit.

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6) I would strongly suggest to disable every network service by default.
The better way is that the installer asks you what you want to enable (sshd, 
sendmail, ...) and if you don't select anything because you don't know, your 
box will be secure. Maybe.

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7) Do you plan to use a different filesystem ID ?
165 for FreeBSD, NetBSD, 386BSD
166 for OpenBSD

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8) Is there any plan to choose one packet filter as the official one ?
PF, IPF or IPFW ?

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Next time I'll write the rest ;-)


	Ed