[CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

Mon Mar 7 17:13:03 UTC 2011
John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>

On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Laurence Hurst wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:11:52PM +0000, Digimer wrote:
>> How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in CentOS 6
>> when it is released?
>>
> For me the big wins with CentOS 6 should be SSSD to simplify and centralise
> (on the machine) network authentication and (hopefully!) graphics drivers
> which work with our hardware out-of-the box.

Yes, SSSD is of interest to me too.  The last version I used was sufficiently
less adept at matching winbind or nss_ldap in functionality that it wasn't all
the good for use against Active Directory.  I'm assuming nested group handling
has improved somewhat since I last tried it with CentOS 5, which was the
killer when I last tried.

It certainly sounds like a massively improved model compared to nss_ldap,
you'd hope for much better resilience and performance.

I'm not sure I see graphics drivers as a big deal.  Have your own local repo,
add in a suitable package from elrepo, and install it at kickstart time.

jh