Basesystem

udev

• do PCI coldplug
• drop udevstart and use udevtrigger (+ Fedora's start_udev)
• migrate conf.d hooks in start_udev
• migrate (and merge?) sound and alsa services in udev rules
• use upstream helpers for persistent rules (net + block), port useful features from our scripts in these helpers and send upstream

mkinitrd

• maybe switch to mkinitramfs (see with Luca Berra)
• allow to use initrd scriptlets in a hooks directory (for live initrd generation)

Hardware detection

• drop most of pcitable and use modalias + pci.ids for modules detection (need to modify ldetect and drakx's detect_devices)
• drop usbtable by auto-extracting modaliases from pre-built dkms packages, and merging them in an additionnal modalias file (maybe /etc/modprobe.d/dkms-aliases.conf)

Kernel drivers

• use dkms packages for most thirdparty drivers (mostly thinking about network drivers such as ndiswrapper, ralink and rfswitch modules, but also lirc, lufs)
• create virtual -latest packages for pre-built dkms drivers (to allow auto-upgrade of these pre-built drivers)

Graphical splash

• drop bootsplash patch? (and losing TTY background picture?)
• consider alternatives:
• splashy (Debian), it has TTY background support and GL support in its roadmap
• gensplash (Gentoo)
• usplash (Ubuntu)

Power management

• push pm-utils modifications upstream
• better splash integration
• hybrid suspend mode (disk + RAM)

Network

Drivers

• use iwlwifi for Intel Wireless 3945ABG
• consider switching to rt2x00 drivers

Tools

• WPA-EAP support in drakx-net (login + pass, certificates)
• finish network-center

Live

• use squashfs + lzma (requires a special squashfs kernel module), it allows live CDs to be about 100 MB smaller
• use readahead + loopback ordering to speed up boot ("reloaded" spec), maybe use a kernel module to log file access order (code is already written)
• improve modules detection ("reloaded" edition as well) not to bruteforce by loading all modules anymore: could be done using either drakx's stage1, or some a la udevstart detection ("a la main" in /sys, or ship udevd + udevtrigger in initrd)
• allow to select packages and langs to be installed during live install
• maybe allow to run live from Windows (through qemu)

3D desktop

• come along potential compiz + beryl merge
• consider input transformation applications

Games

• SecondLife: add OpenAL support (by coding it)
• Wiimote: use new cwiid features (per-application configuration) and integrate it in games packages
• create a drakjoy joystick calibration tool

Virtualization

• improve Xen packaging (fix network issues, automate initrd creation, maybe merge xen0 and xenU kernels)

drakvirt

• consider relying on virt-manager for guest creation functions
• add basic features such as installing to a device or running a random install (not only Mandriva)
• copy /lib/modules/<version> in the installed guest if needed
• network configuration support
• allow to run a graphical Xen VM
• qemu support