Some thoughts for the future

[Richard Kelsch]

Since Fedora is supposed to be "bleeding-edge," I have thought of a few 
things that may be cool for the future, not just for Fedora but Linux in 
general:

*  How about the ability to install via SRPMS for the specific CPU 
platform I'm using?  In other words, as an advanced install option, 
allow me to have the installer use the SRPMS instead of the precompiled 
RPMS, and allow me to define the compiler optimizations for CPU etc.  
That would be cool.  Ok, a slow install, but this isn't a production OS, 
so why not?  I hate having an Athlon-XP running code optimized for a 
P4.  Sure, an install could take days, but it would be an option I'd 
use.  Why?  Because I can and it's certainly bleeding-edge.

*  How about the ability to clone the configured and working version on 
my hardrive to be burned on a DVD (dual layer and blue beam makes this 
possible) for easy portability?

*  Someone needs to make X more display hardware friendly.

*  Gnome and KDE are nice and such, but even Apple knew how to exploit 
the display hardware to make a cool interface.  So much so that MS is 
trying to copy and "improve" it for their next release.  There's more to 
a gui now days than skinning.  Fedora needs a cooler looking GUI.

*  Better documentation of changes that could result in problems with 
legacy software, and techniques on how to fix them, instead of the usual 
"we took [this] out" without further explanation.

Can you immagine a day when the Fedora List has nothing but praise 
instead of a plethora of problems?  One can dream....

Rich