2008.1 General Specifications
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This page contains a broad overview of the technical specifications for Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring (version:=2008.1). Please also see the detailed technical specifications page, which contains a much larger number of relatively smaller items.
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Base system
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
mkinitrd
- Move to Fedora version of mkinitrd for ease of maintenance
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
Mandriva Tools
Installer
Continue to clean and streamline installer, and work on diskdrake
Parental Control
Provide a drakxtool dedicated to parental control with the main features required in such a tool
System backup
Provide easy to use tool to recover all system at a given date (cf. 'system restore points' in Windows)
Security tools
Clean msec and integrate AppArmor default profiles in security tools
Transfugdrake
- Add mail migration support
- Add Windows Vista support
Desktop
KDE
- KDE3 will remain the default as KDE4 is a bit too young
- Provide very integrated version of KDE4, no longer in /contrib
Sound system
PulseAudio as default server for all desktops: make use of sound peripheral easy and efficient for multimedia applications
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
Internationalization
Improve languages support, bring some more tools to help people working on it
