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Now that Sarge has come and gone and Etch is now stable what do you want from Lenny?
I think I'm looking forward to a serious maturation of the desktop: KDE, X, OpenOffice, Inkscape etc etc are all good, but do have bugs annoyances and issues. I'd like to see them really get a darn good polish. It will also be nice to have all the eye candy stabilised and easily available.
On the server side I'm not sure what I'm looking for, the LAMP stack is pretty good at what I want already, and I don't know enough about other stuff to know what I want out of it yet.
Anyhow I switched my desktop system from Etch to Lenny and I'm back on the testing treadmill. All things considered running Etch for the past 18 months hasn't been that bad - I can survive the odd bump now and then... Everyone else in the family will stay put on Etch.
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What I'd like to see from future Debian releases is what I've wanted to see for the last few years, support for administrative tools such as logcheck and cruft be made available as part of the debian packaging process. i.e. that metadata about the files created by the running of applications and the log messages that they generate be maintained by the package maintainer.
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Hmmm, this is the kind of question that gets a different answer every week. However, I guess that there are some things that will have a fairly constant appearance in my list:
A nice way to configure/manage LDAP & Kerberos (LDAP and PAM I'm OK with, but for some reason Kerberos and SASL still usually leave me with a headache...)
A nice CalDAV server (possibly a port of the open source Apple calendar server would be a good starting point).
Sunbird (or icehummingbird, or whatever they will call it in Debian) in testing, rather than sitting in experimental.
Libvirt and the xen guest interface that deadrat have been working on -- it actually looks pretty nice, even if I would migrate the guest off to a headless box once they're running well.
But I guess these are all just "nice to haves" -- I don't see that there's anything really "missing" from Debian that I MUST have.
Laters.
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I'm pretty much the same except I'd love to see some speech recognition package so I can command my machine via voice. I think there's a free as in freedom problem with that still though.
PJ
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