ideas 3

[Ed <df@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

again some ideas...


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I think it could be good to include a way to save mixer volume levels across 
reboots. I think FreeBSD 5.3 already does this, but I don't know if DF has 
already ported that.

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I would suggest to promote the broad adoption of bzip2 format for release 
parts, packages and distfiles. This because bzip2 has some big pro over gzip: 
BSD-licensed and better compression.

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I know that DF is still "under construction", but I would suggest to think 
about strip-ping the system/kernel for a complete release. This should cut 
down the space needed on the disk and in RAM.

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What about creating a few kernel config files for common systems ?
NetBSD does something like that with GENERIC, LAPTOP, SMALL,...

I thought that DF could use these:
GENERIC	already in use by default; include most things
LAPTOP	include laptop specific things like cardbus/pcmcia
		remove strange thing like SCSI or RAID drivers
SERVER	include things like SCSI/RAID
		remove audio, CardBus/pcmcia, wifi, ...
DESKTOP	include audio
		remove SCSI/RAID, CardBus/pcmcia, wifi,...

Well, I think you got the idea...

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Now that you are working on pkg management tools I'd like to see a special 
focus on HTTP only transfers. FTP is a big problem for firewall and NATted 
users (especially active ftp) and also needs a lot of sockets on the server.

I'd like to see HTTP as default method to fetch distfiles and packages.

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And now a special thing for a special project: KGI4BSD.
I know that DF is going to be a multi-year project focused on innovation and 
so I think you should consider to adopt KGI4BSD to provide unique features.
FreeBSD is not pushing it and so the project is going slowly, but I think that 
the active DF community could adopt it and make a success of it.

http://people.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD/content-news.html

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Bye.


	Ed