1) Better package management: At last we got an RPM front end who manages dependencies and prompts for the right CD. But many packages are not visible through it. Libraries, fonts, man pages just to give some examples. And also some packages deemed secondary. For these you have to manage them from the command line and while it tells you which package contains the missing dependency, you stil have to look through the CDROMa and you are can still have to manage a dependency cascade. The front end really needs a toggle allowing to see everything not the limited view given in RedHat 8.0 2) Better printing management. For one thing when switching from LPRng to CUPS and viceversa I really expect the tool to take care of evrything: ie install the missing parts, stop and start daemons. I also expect a better treatment for CUPS. There is still no decent config tool (I wouldn't qualify the Web tool as decent since the UI is so so and it leaves out many important possibilities) allowing the box to not have outside clients (typical when you only have remote printers) and to retrieve the config from remote CUPS servers so you can have config once (in the server) and print from everywhere. Mandrake's configurator does all that and it is GPL what is RedHat waiting to rip it off. Also if my memory doesn't fail me RedHat's cups is still unable to print to an SMB server. You only have to make a symlink in the backends directory from cups but it was missing in 7.3 and it is still missing in 8.0 3) Taking Samba more seriously. Despite having to live with SMB environments being far more frequent than with NFS it is NFS who got a configurator and the Samba users having to content with Swat who IMHO doesn't cut mustard. And please make it easy to browse network and mount shares. 4) Better networking. First RedHat provides nothing for NAT and second the firewalling seems weak since its default policy is accept, it only filters TCP and UDP plus desite using iptables it is stateless. 5) There should be a clearer way to customize the Gnome menus. 6) Better integration with national setups: I dream of being able to install translated docs, fonts and tutti quanti in one operation. Plus being able to set defaults (eg paper size: we use A4 here) in one operation JFM -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
