Alright, so we know we have the desktop and the server editions, and for what they're worth, they do a wonderful job on laptops.

However, what they do isn't necessarily enough, as many laptop users have to go out of their way to install modules to keep their laptops down, or keep their hard disks from being over conservative on power.

This is why I'm proposing a Laptop Edition for Ubuntu Linux, and to put in a conservative ballpark, I'd shoot for 8.10 at the earliest, or even 9.04.

The theory is simple: Get a version of Linux that is designed to work flawlessly with laptops, without letting it think for a fraction of a second that it is a desktop.

Key focuses for a laptop version would be:

1) Battery life
2) CPU throttling
3) Heat reduction
4) Less strain on the hard disks, where necessary
5) Wireless

The reason that I said 8.10-9.04 as a ballpark would be that it might be favorable to get another type of BIOS on that motherboard, instead of what's already specified. This way, things can click a bit smoother, such as wireless identification and various other tweaks.

Do feel free to add your own theories and comments to this, since it is something I'd like to see happen someday.

I realize that there are many ways to format the date, but our environment doesn't seem to offer any reasonable way to do it. By this I mean via a GUI; I'm personally not afraid to do it by command line.

My suggestion is simple: Give us a GUI/plugin that lets us change the format of time and dates globally.

Examples:

Sunday, 13 April 2008
Sun, 13 Apr 2008
Sun, Apr 13, 2008

I have my desktop a certain way. Hard disks on the right, (mandatory) folders on the left. Every time, however, I put in a new CD or mount a new drive, it usually likes to overlay itself right on top of what I might have set up already, for example: a DVD overlaying itself over another folder of mine on the desktop.