Contributor Auzy

Ever since the release of 8.04 I've felt like I've been doing nothing but playing a hide and go seek game with my computer to find the correct settings I need to have my computer set to to have specific programs play audio. I realized that if you open Flash before opening Audacity, Audacity will report sound errors, and if you start Audacity before Flash, Flash doesnt make any sound. It's not just Audacity and Flash that do this. It's every program on my system. Pidgin completely stopped making those annoying noises it usually makes and I have to force reload alsa everytime I want to change programs. Come on already, pick a sound system, and stick with it.

When Ubuntu starts up it takes anywhere from 1 1/2 to 2 minutes to load up completely as compared to Windows which, on the same computer, takes only 42 seconds to start up. This is a area that if inproved would make using Ubuntu a breeze.

Also, upon startup the computer says "Press escape to show menu..." and it counts down from 10; maybe removing this would help speed up startup times.

On September 4, 2008 Activision and Raven Software released the source code for the games Hexen and Heretic as free open source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

The source code is available at SourceForge;
* http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=238655

We can now compile Linux binaries and put it in the repository.

serious good idea that Google Chrome Web Browser this by default when ready

Every time I install ubuntu, the first thing I do, is open a terminal, and when pop up a ugly terminal with white background, thats scary....

We can do it better, maybe some black, with some transparency, or anything else, no matter what color, but something less ugly... plz!!!

I usually don't care wether or not the software on my computer is open-source or not, and the nvidia driver works great for me. However, it is giving lots of problems for other people, including slow 2d performance. Also, xorg.conf will no longer exist in about a year or so, and users who use the nvidia driver would still need it. This may lead to problems with keyboard layouts and the like, since the nvidia binary driver creates a xorg.conf with default options.

In addition, shipping ubuntu without 3d support, as is done now, might give a lot of users the impression that the OS isn't as user friendly as it says on the website (while in fact it is), as you have to install a driver even to get simple desktop effects to work.

Since there is already open-source 3d support for radeon chips, I would recommend the ubuntu developers to help out the nouveau nvidia driver project. I think it would make a lot of difference if there would be fast, stable opensource 3d support for nvidia video cards, by default, and it might help to avoid the problems described above.

MacOS-X since a long time comes with a chmod+chown fixer tool needed

This is helpful on people (like me) used to acidentally used to do chown or chmod on the wrong files or folders, and Gnome starts to stop booting... (GDM and HAL seems to persist having some bugs about this as well)

The tool (with a or inside a system recovery tool GUI) is very simple, as far i could do a simple .sh would do the same - this as tool would be mostly focused for disastrous newbies, like i were...

The Ubuntu LiveCD has broken my ubuntu install when I only brought the installer to the "choose a partition" point and then backed out. LiveCDs shouldn't touch the hard drive until instructed to!

I think that there should be at least an option for a downloads folder by default where files would be downloaded by any apps

Develop a opensource alternative for Adobe Flash the same way as Microsoft had developed Silverlight (http://silverlight.net).
And than promote it to Youtube and other websites that are using Adobe Flash at the moment.

When there is an alternative the Ubuntu users can have a media experience without a browser crash like Adobe Flash does.

As a user I want to be able to listen to audio or watch videos with the least amount of setup. I would like to have a single interface (Codec Manager) that lists all of the most common audio and video formats and shows me if I am missing the necessary codec for playback.

Use Case: Enable MP3 playback.
Precondition: MP3s are not currently playable.
1. User logs into the system.
2. User opens the Codec Manager.
3. System displays a list of common audio/video formats.
4. User selects MP3s.
5. System displays some info about MP3s.
6. System displays a list of available codecs.
7. User selects a codec and clicks Apply.
8. System downloads and installs the selected codec.
9. System informs the user when completed.

Other possible features:
- Display a list of audio/video types that are missing codecs.
- An auto-setup function, that grabs the recommended codec for all formats.

Audio and Video formats that should be supported:

Audio:
- MP3
- OGG
- AAC
- FLAC
- Real Audio

Video:
- MP4

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In the case a dual cores processor and the use of several workspaces, it should be interesting to be able to select one core of the processor for a workspace.

Im not sure how hard this would be, but wouldn't it be nice if 64 bit ubuntu would also support 32 bit apps? then if there's only a 32 bit debian pakage available, you could still run it on the 64 bit ubuntu without having to compile the application from source I also noticed that even on the live cds the 64 bit ubuntu ran much faster

TCPA chips are a way of storing private encryption keys on a chip where they cannot be stolen by hackers. The problem with Hard-disk storage of keys, is that hackers simply need to copy the key off.

We could support them in places such as the keychain so that the keychain cannot be decrypted from any computer other then the one you are on. It could also potentially be used for SSH servers, or for HTTPS websites, for signing (and storing the key securely to eliminate MITM attacks later on).

There are many cases where we could greatly increase security by storing our keys in a more secure fashion, because as of now, with root access, servers keys become compromised, but that can be avoided via TCPA.

Currently, brainstorm asks you sometime for a captcha.

It should not. Captchas are not accessible for people with some disabilities and even with a 10/10 vision, it is somewhat tricky to guess what you have to type.

There are solutions. One of them (which works 100% well for me on multiple sites and for years ) :
http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?150-the-invisible-captcha-mechanism-icm-against-form -spam

Since there may be several file systems mounted at the same time, the name of the volume is confusing.

In Sweden, as well as in the US, as far as I understood there are now new legislation coming up that seriously compromises the privacy of the users.

In Sweden we have two very worrying laws coming up.

1. The "FRA-law" that gives the Swedish security police the right to wiretapp and datamine ALL international data traveling through Sweden.
2. The "Logging-law". Telco operators will be obliged to collect all information about their users whereabouts and keep that information for a year.

We have to work towards the aim: Security by default - and I'm not talking about the system, but to protect our datastreams from being wiretapped.

Me personally think that PKI is the solution to use here whereever possible. IF a session to/from a Ubuntu-system could be read in clear text the user/administrator should be aware of it.

Postfix is important here, Dovecot as well - all emails should be send over encrypted channels by default.

Mark Shuttleworth with his huge knowledge in Digital Certificates (He sold Thawte remember) would be of great help here.

I would like to see Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu leverage an infrastructure and create services to provide their community with a good, PKI-based solution.

Privacy matters

Sincerely
Niklas Andersson, Swedish TechWorld Open Source

Edit: I've made a proposition of a real-world-implementation of a very viable way to solve the email issue at a user-level.

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Recently i tried the apps Pixen and Reptile (both open-source apps from MacOS-X)

Pixen can be considered an excellent MacPaint/DeluxePaint/ms-paint replacement, having animation tools, and very targeted to pixel-art - from Pixen we can see what is missing on apps like xpaint

Reptile is a very interesting tile editor (very useful for 2d platform game developers), since it's very hard to find tile editors for Linux, specially good ones

Since those are open-source, and having the sources in objective-c format, and using apple-cocoa libraries, i don't know how hard would be replacing them with GTK or wxWidgets libraries, or alike.

http://opensword.org/Pixen/
http://opensword.org/Reptile/

Linux currently already supports read-only access to Be File System (BFS / BeFS).

If we had support for full read-write access, then we could have better interoperability with BeOS, ZETA, Haiku, SkyOS.

Change the african name “Ubuntu” to a different better name.
Give your proposition to a different, better, name to this system