http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Sat, 30-Aug-2008 00:00:00 UTC Sat, 30-Aug-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12403/
is it possible to implement?

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sorry, duplicate... http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7237/

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In effect, this option would be a regular install, except that the installer would copy the user directories to memory before rewriting the partition, and then recopy them back onto the hard drive after installation. No separate /home/ partition would be necessary to ensure that the users' files are kept safe.

This option would be extremely easy to implement, and would require virtually no extra space on the LiveCD. It might even be integrated into the regular "Install" option. There would be no need for an extra partition for the /home/ folder, or a backup prior to the installation. I think that users would greatly benefit, and that the Ubuntu would become more promising as an "offline" OS. I imagine that laptop and business users would benefit the most, as neither might have access to an internet connection.

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very nice to see those information before starting to download/install some application cause there are people with slow internet(56/128 etc,i have 512 but thats not blazing fast either) and theres download limit(which is evil by it
self) and other obstacles that may prevent u from getting desired application.
I dont know if Adept has that or not so it would be good to add it to Adept as well if Adept doesnt have it,or any other package manager in *ubuntus.
(And for the record i searched for idea similar to this,i couldnt find it,if there is one please link to it in comments or to merge votes or whatever(yea i have tons of votes so it would be very important to merge them :) [joke])
*btw this is my first idea so if i did something wrong please tell me,i am always welcome for tips :D

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No attachments. ]]> Sat, 30-Aug-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12118/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12364/ The installation is easy enough for former Windows users.

But its much more difficult when it comes to silly ideas like "I want to have another Linux-OS on my Computer".
If you don´t have the standart layout (whatever the reason is for that) you run into deep troubles when you are not so experienced.
The other Linux OS, Ubuntu included will overwrite the Grub of the already existing Linux OS when you don´t care about "where do I put the bootloader?".
Or the Grub of the existing Linux-OS will not recognise a new installation if you put the bootloader of the additional Linux somewhere else (not into MBR)

So my idea and question is:
would it be possible to implement some feature into the install and partitioning routine which detects other Linux-Grub installations and asks the user: "there is another Linux. Do you want to keep it?" and two buttons: "yes, please add yourself to the boot-menu" and "no, please delete the old system"

With clicking the "yes"-button Ubuntu should add its bootloading-stuff to the existing GRUB so that after the reboot the user could chose like it is in Ubuntu-Windows Dualboot systems. I mean such an automated mechanism like it is existing for existing windows-installations.

With clicking the "no" Button Ubuntu could proceed like before: overwriting the GRUB and boot-files in the MBR.

How about this? Is it a great idea or... just stupid? :-))

Thanks and greetings


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The tool is coded in Python and QT4, so it works on Windows and Linux. I know that distros like to keep any advantage they can over each other, but nevertheless it would be awesome to see this tool get some more love and for it to become more generic.

It would make a nice complement to Wubi.

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How about we help those users that are not psychic or experienced, those who would think cancelling the download would make them have to download everything again or even cause system corruption, how about we give them a pause button?.

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it was really painfull to go through liveCD installer,

there is an information on box, that 256MB of ram is required

wouldnt it be good, if installer at the very beginning, choose, or suggest you if you have an older machine - to use alternate install?

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For example, after a fresh install of Ubuntu, I always uninstall fspot, tracker, bluetooth, ekiga, tomboy, gThumb, the games, and others. Which makes it feel like Ubuntu is a little bloated.

Benefits from this feature:
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1. Users stop complaining about including useless packages. (evolution, xsane, transmission, tracker, bluetooth analyzer, tomboy notes, ekiga softphone, gThumb, fspot, games. To name a few.)
2. Less disk usage.
3. Faster install time, since there is less to fetch from the cd and install.
4. You will not have to uninstall the packages later, which may leave configs and other post installation junk on your system, resulting in a cleaner system.
5. Default is still possible so no one will complain about the new ability to customize the install.
6. (Possible) More advanced users can remove the packages that they don't use before burning to the cd, resulting in a smaller cd to install from. (burning time will also decrease).

*As an addition to number 6, I don't know exactly how the cd filesystem works, but it could also speed up the installation since there will be less time spent searching for the package. Correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks.

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Upon installation of Ubuntu, you should be able to select what applications you want / need and what applications you don't want installed. This has two big advantages, from my point of view:

1. There's less disk space use -- more free space! Also, by copying lesser files to the hard disk, the installation could be quicker.
2. It offers the user more flexibility and choice. For example: someone could choose to have Thunderbird installed by default, instead of Evolution (in the GUI I imagine it like this: Install an Email Client -> List of Email clients to choose from). That would spare them the chore of uninstalling Evolution and installing Thunderbird by default (just an example).
3. Because the packages are on the CD, if the user decides later on he wants some application, he just pops the Ubuntu CD in and installs it. This spares him the download of packages from the net, which may be a pain if the user is on dial-up.

The GUI could also have some "Profiles" like "Default" -- the default Ubuntu instalation, "Minimal" -- no apps besides the GUI, "Office" -- All OO.o apps, Evolution, etc...

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No attachments. ]]> Sat, 30-Aug-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12561/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12134/ It will be able to boot small Linux just from board, independently external medium (HDD), utilization is for HW examination, dividing HDD partitions and emergency internet acces (browsing web, im).

Example: ASUS Express Gate
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=101513

Let's build similar alternative from UBUNTU - modify and reduce classic LiveCD to "LiveFLASH" 512MB, and moreover to Splashtop Linux, retain a possibility to make full installation of Ubuntu to HDD from onboard FLASH (same way as from LiveCD)!

Let's offer this system to producers (DELL, ASUS, ...).

(Maybe also 1GB onboard Flash chip => full LiveCD ... heureka! )

Vote also here: http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/74820/Dell_Dude_Youre_getting_Dell_Instant_On_OS

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No attachments. ]]> Sat, 30-Aug-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12134/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12366/ If a user manually compiles a driver/program, it can break after a system upgrade, which means the user will have to re-compile that driver/program each time his/her system is updated via the update manager.

The idea:
Give ubuntu the ability to re-compile any drivers/programs the user would like to compile when updating the system. This should be done automatically and should prevent drivers/programs from breaking.

Solution 1:
Have an auto-compile directory where the user stores any sourcecode which is to be compiled automatically. The update manager looks at this directory and re-compiles any sourcecode when updating the system. This is very automated as the user can forget about re-compiling once the sourcecode is in the correct directory

Solution 2:
Allow the user to write a post-update script which is launched automatically after a successfull update/upgrade. This will give the user more flexibility and also gives them the ability to perform further optional tasks like, sending an sms when complete, shutting the system down when complete. The posibilites are endless.

Solution 3:
Combine solution 1 and 2 so the user can use both the easy method and the advanced users can click on an advanced button to make manual changes to the script.

End result:
This would give ubuntu a more polished feel to it especially when programs stop breaking after a system update.


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One solution would be to create an ubuntu-free-extras metapackage similar to the ubuntu-restricted-extras package, but that incldues a bunch of free packages that make the ubuntu experience better. Certainly this wouldn't install every package in the repositories that wasn't on the CD, just some that would be nice to have installed, but that didn't make the cut when it came time to make everything fit onto the CD.

This package could include everything from tools to themes. I'm sure that I'm missing lots, but a few off of the top of my head are:
gnome-device-manager
gparted
gnome-themes-extras
wine
openclipart-openoffice.org

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1. For Streamlined or Low RAM experience (Visual Effects OFF)
2. Optimized amount of Visual Effects
3. Aesthetically pleasing (All Visual Effects On)

Options 2 and 3 would automatically set up Visual Effects (test to see if system can handle first; perhaps in-installation visual test) and install at the minimum Simple CompizConfig Settings Manager.

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In the portable scenario, as the system is actually installed, the loopmounted filesystem can easily defeat the much commented live-usb approach presented by the Fedora community.

AND (this is what made this approach different) the files stored inside the USB partition could be natively accessed from almost any recent system (computer, mp3/dvd player, etc.). Talking about freedom!

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Pseudo-proposal: Install the system and bootloader in a USB flash drive; but, as only allow one partition per external drive, every Windows system will see a "corrupted" partition table and constantly propose to format the drive; and the fs-driver workaround demand a second storage medium or Internet access, so may not be reasonable enough.
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REAL proposal: Add to wubi&lubi the "install to a USB" option (typically FAT32) and additionally allow swapless setup to protect the life cycle of the drive.

The process seems to be simply enough to be easy implemented: install to USB, and install GRUB in the flashdrive instead of change the Windows' boot loader. The swapless under loopmounted, have no idea.

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I'm not sure exactly how Wubi works, and if this is even possible. But, if we could do it, it would help spread desktop Linux quite a bit.

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- Select your language
- Select your timezone from the map
- Select your keyboard

Something wrong there is that the default behavior is to always highlight the "keyboard" USA by default after selecting the timezone.

Select a country: Paris (for example) in the map or in the dropdown list then click "next" the default keyboard highlighted will be "USA". It should be "French". Selecting Berlin should highlight "Germany", Tokyo "Japan" etc...

I know it can't be accurate in all cases but it's far better than the actual behavior.

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No attachments. ]]> Sat, 30-Aug-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11726/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12652/ Such a store could be a central market place, where software can be bought savely and easily from a users view and could be easily offered and sold from a developers view. The result could be, that a real market for commercial Ubuntu software could be established.

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I'm sure i'm not the first one who ask about this but i would like to know if it would be feasible to do something like:

1º User does "dpkg -l > list.txt" and take that file to the computer with Internet (for example: at work place)

2º Then uses a browser at the package website to upload the file with the list of packages installed in its computer.

3º It selects the software which want to download

4º The site checks the dependencies needed with the packages list (list.txt) and download everything necessary.
It could also create a script to install all the downloaded packages in the user's computer.

Thank you and sorry if i'm repeatting something which someboby already talked about

PD. Sorry also about my english.




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