Contributor acreman

I say remove selinux and apparmor.
It's not necessary.
It's not configured.
Desktop edition has no need for it.
Truly the server editions would do just fine without it.

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Seperate repositories for those that want it built into their programs and libraries?

Without a book being provided the majority of Ubuntu's userbase lacks the skills to comprehend it's purpose.

I'm not speaking for the 1% of skilled computer-science and hobbiests out there.
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Can you make a clear valid point of it occupying space?
I can't.

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Why it should be removed.
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1. It's tough to remove the cancer it represents.
Various packages link to it.

2. It's an infection brought on by people who are fear mongers.
Since when has a desktop Linux user cared about a process created for servers. It's like asking the average Joe to configure his on mail and dns servers just to be on the safe side.

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UBUNTU SUCKS:

1. Its grey, yellow and brown.

2. When you try to save sth. and would like to create a new folder for that thing, ubuntu will save your work somwhere else rather than in the newly created folder. You'll be lucky to ever find it;

3. Ubuntu Firefox is broken: write an address and the page isn't dispayed, firefox will tell you its in some sort of "offline mode";

4. If your Ubuntu Firefox is working, Backspace doesn't;

5. In Ubuntu Firefox if you use right click to open a link, the Firefox opens completely random programmes instead of the link. You'll never know what it will do. It may open Evolution Mail, it may save some bookmarks, or open some random dialog box;

4. There's 90% chance, that your laptop won't output any sound;

5. If you are lucky 10%, and the sound on your laptop works, you wan't be able to use external speakers or headphones- they wan't work;

6. There is only one single computer part manufacturer that makes drivers for linux. The rest doesn't bother with the 1% of the market;

7. This single manufacture is Nvidia. Their drivers are useless, very buggy and they might destroy your laptop and you can burn yourself;

5. The skype camera in your laptop won't work;

6. Video on webpages like youtube, google video, metacafe, dailymotion, etc. will have no sound. Any video will be choppy and in full screen they will be displayed as a slow picture slideshow;

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Kubuntu 8.10 does not include Bluetooth support due to "last minute bluez changes". I have never heard of another mainstream OS that releases when major hardware support is broken. Even worse, many people will install it, and say all linux distro's suck at bluetooth.

To prevent this happening again, someone from quality-control needs to be put in charge to sign off the release as final (only if all major hardware works). At the moment, it doesn't seem like anyone is in control, and that there is nobody there to force a deviation from the roadmap if it becomes necessary due to bugs!

Ubuntu 8.10 final made sense, but Kubuntu 8.10 should have become kubuntu 8.10 RC2 to ensure bluetooth was working before release.

If Microsoft shipped their OS with broken Bluetooth, everyone would be making a big fuss. 9.04 SHOULD be delayed in the case devices if functionality such as webcams/wireless/bluetooth/portable media players is broken. And controls to ensure it is should be put into place to prevent this happening again. An RC release should be for cleaning up bugs, NOT for simply identifying broken drivers/hardware that exists and fixing it later.

Its a hard decision to delay an OS, but somebody NEEDS to make it. Otherwise when push comes to shove, if we ever do start to get some market share, Apple and Microsoft will likely be cracking jokes in their advertising about how their OS ships with working hardware. "Hello, I'm a Mac, and my hardware works out of the box". "Hello I'm ubuntu, and whilst theres been some minor problems, its not major. Who needs bluetooth anyway right?"

My idea is about a better looking terminal emulator.

Ok, lets take a normal window, like the one we already have with our terminal emulator.

Then lets make a some kind of searchbar where you type the commands. As you type a drop down list will show giving you results for a command that may be the one you where going to use. Then hit enter if you have written the command line, or press "ok". You can also select a command from the drop down list and hit enter or "Ok".

Then next step is having a progress a little further down. This shows the progress for launching the command...you know...

Under there again the command lines can be showed. (More or less as we see them today).

And lets have some options as well. One important options has to be the option to choose between the terminal emulator layout. The one we have today, and the one in my idea. You may again tweak this. We also have to keep it as fast and effective.

----MOCKUP COMING SOON-----for the ones who want to see what I mean

and if there is something missing here, please give me a cooment :)

Wouldn't be nice to have a dock like in mac os x in ubuntu (a special version , not a mac copy ).It will be useful and good looking .

UBUNTU ROAD TEST BY A NOVICE 25-10-08

OBJECTIVE
need a reliable simple OS, with simple step by step instructions, that can be used by a novice using common sense.

PARAMETERS
Gigabyte ga7va, AMD Athalon XP2000 1.67 GH, 1 GB ram, Leadtek a280le nvidia gforce4 ti4200 64GB, 80 GB HD, 19 inch Viewsonic, 415 watts PSU.

HD 1= 10GB NTFS C XP 2= 10GB X3 / ex dir Ubuntu 3= 1.536 Gb X3 swap, 4= 17.7GB NTFS D home XP 5= 17.7GB X3 home dir Ubuntu, 6= 17.7GB spare for transfers between OS's.

ISO Ubuntu 8.04, MD5 + burn verify = good, installed 23-08-08

RESULTS

1 Ubuntu was a beautiful experience after XP, simple, straightforward, easy on the eye, 2 task bars great, and I had it installed, configured and ready to use in 4 hrs. A dream come true.

2 Firefox Ubuntu ( Firetu ) took 3 to 4 times longer than Firefox XP ( Firexp ), to load up websites and their pages.

3 Firetu displayed pages only half the width of the screen in many cases, compared to Firexp.

4 Firetu displayed text over text on about 10 % of websites.

5 20-10-08 Installed new Dynalink rta1320 adsl2+, Firetu could not recognize it, even though the configuration was perfect, with a diagnostic test by Dynalink, while Firexp had a marked improvement in connection speed. Then I encountered disaster, as I tried to fix Firetu, uninstall and reinstall it, and was finally condemned to, abandon Ubuntu for XP.

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Microsoft implemented a very gksudo-looking feature in Windows Vista called User Account Control. This feature is a very obvious security improvement over previous Windows versions, because it blocks administrative features from the administrator without the admin password. At the same time, in single-user environments this feature becomes a hassle, therefore MS has been kind enough to add a check box by each administrators user account in the control panel reading "Disable UAC for this account". It is fairly strait-forward to do the same in Ubuntu. By using the
"sudo visudo" command and changing
"%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL" to
"%admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL"
one can allow the sudo command to be run by suders without a password, and thereby allow gksudo to run without prompt; the equivalent of disabling Vista's UAC.
My idea is to add a fronted GUI preference somewhere to allow this change.
Obviously, this should be enabled by default - like it is on Vista. But the target audience of Ubuntu - the average user, should never have to drop into a shell to change a preference.
This is not as dangerous as some might imagine, all the programs still run as a limited user, unless set off by gksudo, standard users still cannot run elevated programs, and no one gets the ability to run a previously root-requiring command without sudo.

* Make Ubuntu have blue GUI, do you really think apple would have succeeded using a brown desktop?
* Make ubuntu have a glossy blue wallpaper, do you really think apple would have succeeded with animals on the wallpaper?
* Make a default dock and the top panel should have the app menus, do you really think apple would have succeeded if they made OS/X look like gnome?
* Make ubuntu work only on dell computers, do you really think apple would have succeeded if OS/X was usable on non-apple machines?
* Make ubuntu less flexible, do you really think apple would have succeeded if they made their software flexible?
* Make ubuntu closed source, do you really think apple would have succeeded if OS/X was open source?
* Make ubuntu use another kernel, do you really think apple would have succeeded if OS/X used Linux?
* Remove brainstorm, do you really think apple would have succeeded if they listened to user ideas?

In fact, the only thing you are doing correctly is cups.

I am trying at OpenOffice 3 rc4 right now and asked a friend to send me a .docx file in order to check if it worked.

The file is 15.9kb and only appear a big ink splash. I searched on internet to see if someone could make it work on any linux distro and looks like they haven't.

I suggest to create a special package for read and write .docx, .xlsx and .pptx files since the OO3 fails on that.

And don't start with "IS YOUR FAULT" dance since I download and install the packages and they didn't worked.

If you don't believe me then here is http://rapidshare.com/files/153511617/diagramas_4.docx.html the file, just 15.9kb of epic fail.

So, the question is, what exactly is the reason launchpad and brainstorm aren't open source yet? You know, things like this just help erode ubuntu's image, it will be a large boost in ubuntu's image if things like this could be made open source, well, Jhon Doe doesn't care about this, but you should know that many devs. do, and Ubuntu could use a larger dev community, in my opinion. I titled this "Eat your own dog food" because there is another reason rather than image with the community, there is also the image with people outside of the open source world, why would an OS that promotes such things as being 100% guaranteeing that it will stay free, and an OS that is such a flag project for open source in general, not have a FOSS tracker platform?

The website software could help many infant open source projects have a good platform for their things, also, remember that open source is a good development strategy, opening up these projects will speed new features and bug fixes...

I recently changed all my fonts in system-> preferences-> appearance to size 8 from 10, and I'm very pleased with the way it relieves ubuntu's tendency to look "fat". Try it and see! I think this might be an acceptable default, or at least some kind of option during install ("which of these sample boxes is readable to you?"). I, for one, wish I would have thought to do this a long time ago, as it's like having a bigger monitor.

[Idea closed, it just wasn't a good idea]

Wouldn't it encourage people to use it if compiz fusion was built in because then they'd think it was part of the perating system and an equivalent of vista aero but if it's not installed then most people don't know about it and think that vista has better effects than Ubuntu.

Graphical explication

1. Delete de windows networks icon
http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image=85330472bu1.png
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2. In the new Network:// detected the protocols in host
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3 Show the host detectes in local network
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4 Clic in host 1 for more details os the procotols avaibles
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5. Clic in protocos nfs for share the folder in the local host
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It looks like Valve needs linux programmers, I got this as a response from Gabe Newell:

"Do you know any good Linux developers?"

Duh, maybe someone wants the job?


Email: gaben@valvesoftware.com

Right know as I heard in Ubuntu 8.10 when you hit shutdown button on your computer, the system will shut down after 60 seconds.
It would be nice if it would ignore those timeout and shut down immediately after hitting the button twice.

I have a problem with my panels. The problem is, that they are crashing down after starting a few programs (I have to say, that my panels are on the left and on the right side of the disply and not on the bottom and upper end of the display).

My current solution is to kill the gnome-panel process but after a few minutes they are still crashing down.

Regards

Florian

Well This idea would seem odd and difficult, BUT take your time to read this and judge it objectively!

Just try to imagine the number of Linux developers and contributers for every Linux Distribution!!! It's much much more than any other operation system developers... but see the result, it still are too much bugs, deficiencies for each Linux Distribution that are corrected every day...

Many manufacturers wouldn't like to support Linux (Canon among others...), one of the reasons is that it would cost them too much money to develop drivers for every Linux distribution and the support manual would be huge.. instead they make drivers for Mac and Windows!!!!!

It's obvious my friends, make a unique Linux project would make Linux stronger and would ease the choice for new comers... with millions of contributers and users all around the world, software and gaming companies would be forced to develop a Linux version of their software!!!
-->A solution once and for all to all Linux compatibility problems.

BUT HOW TO MAKE IT:
*First way: Ubuntu distribution as the most used Linux distribution with at least 80%... so that Linux would mean Ubuntu: Linux=Ubuntu


*Second way: Creating a common project with other communities, this would be very exiting... like Symbian OS for phone companies... (well, very very difficult..)

THINK ABOUT IT:
-->Would you like to have always a bug to fix and a compatibility problem to solve, or create an operating system that surpasses Mac OS X and Windows ?

A new, great version of VLC (0.9.2) has been released.

It would be really great to make an exception to the feature freeze rule and let this new version of VLC ship with Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.

I'm sure most Ubuntu users will thank you for it!

let Kubuntu/KDE to be the default more advertised distro. And Ubuntu/GNOME an extra.

If you prefer Kubuntu KDE vote +1
If you prefer Ubuntu GNOME vote -1

I wonder what will be the result....

EDIT: ok, the idea is stupid. Please stop voting :)