Contributor Kadaz

Currently, when you upgrade, you loose a lot of time because all has to be installed then, only when it's finished, it will start the real upgrade.

1) As soon as apt has a bunch of related packages, it should upgrade them. It makes no sense to wait to download the full OpenOffice packages before installing the linux-kernel.

2) The download with apt should not be blocking. I should be able to apt-get upgrade --download-only a lot of packages and still be able to install a little software.

7-Zip is open source software. Source code is under the GNU LGPL license. it is nice to install it default.

1. Install 7zip with other copression methodes like zip, tar, gzip

2. It automatically integrated with file-roller. So no need any other gui program or user don't want to know complex comand lines for compressing their data in 7zip.

In todays computer systems the main bottleneck is not CPU but disk access which is several orders of magnitude slower than CPU and memory. In such circumstances the way to improve application performance is to prefetch data it needs from disk before it even requests it and it is the point of prefetching techniques. This speeds up boot and decreases the time needed to start programs. This replaces and it is faster than the currently used readahead.

I have seen ideas in brainstorm.ubuntu.com that I really like, so I voted for them. I have also seen others that seemed like bad ideas to me, so I voted against. But what about those I don't have a strong opinion about? What about those that I would find OK if implemented, but I wouldn't really give a damn if not? What about those I just don't understand?

I feel like brainstorm.ubuntu.com is somehow "forcing" me to take a decision on those, because it shows them to me every time I enter the page. I would really like to have the option to show my indifference -or ignorance- on them.

Also, it would be helpful if hiding voted ideas (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1333/) is ever implemented.

cdroms are slow, don't allow to modify their content easily, they are weak and not as easy to carry as USB keys.

It would be great to provide Ubuntu as a liveUSB just as Mandriva does. We should be able to carry our distribution on any computer, manage our preferred settings (do I want binary drivers enabled ? what is my preferred resolution ?), etc.

The thing is not to make something transportable, but really a nomad system that could be used just the best way as it could on any computer.