2008.1 General Specifications
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This page contains a broad overview of the technical specifications for Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring (2008.1). Please also see the detailed technical specifications page, which contains a much larger number of relatively smaller items.
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[edit] Base system
[edit] RPM management
- Move to Redhat/Suse fork of RPM for cross-distro consistency and ease of maintenance
- Use geoip technology to make repository configuration transparent and prepare for error management for Mandriva Linux 2009
[edit] mkinitrd
- Move to Fedora version of mkinitrd for ease of maintenance
[edit] kernel
- New kernel version: instead of using 2008 kernel (as per 2007 / 2007 Spring), we will provide new version as things are going very fast, to improve hardware support
[edit] Mandriva Tools
[edit] Installer
Continue to clean and streamline installer, and work on diskdrake
[edit] Parental Control
Provide a drakxtool dedicated to parental control with the main features required in such a tool
[edit] System backup
Provide easy to use tool to recover all system at a given date (cf. 'system restore points' in Windows)
[edit] Security tools
Clean msec and integrate AppArmor default profiles in security tools
[edit] Transfugdrake
- Add mail migration support
- Add Windows Vista support
[edit] Desktop
[edit] KDE
- KDE3 will remain the default as KDE4 is a bit too young
- Provide very integrated version of KDE4, no longer in /contrib
[edit] Sound system
PulseAudio as default server for all desktops: make use of sound peripheral easy and efficient for multimedia applications
[edit] Focused applications
2008.1 will provide some focused applications based on success in open source applications field. We will ask for proposals for these applications
[edit] Internationalization
Improve languages support, bring some more tools to help people working on it
