I would dearly like to see ROS Desktop and Server modelled after Win2000's Domain Controller model (using LDAP, or NDS, or whatever). Again maximum compatiblity to allow for Windows clients would be nice, but ultimately I would like to get rid of making sacrifices to the Golden Flag of MS.
I understand that ROS still has a ways to go for this to happen, but I would like to see:
- Server distro with Apache or some other native FTP/HTTP (with SSL support) provider, and some simple SMTP daemon
- Disk quotas
- Distributed file systems
- Windows style network shares
- Policies for Windows/ROS machines and networks (including policies for boot logos, desktop wallpaper, access to control panel, etc)
- Policies for whichever bundled web brower gets included (Firefox!!)
- (easily) Mappable drives

> bundling Firefox and Thunderbird
> bundling TightVNC for remote administration