Contributor boga

A separate partition for /home has been proposed for a long time in the forums. It implies some risks, though, so based on disk size Ubiquity should estimate the amount of space that should be left for / or whether a separate partition should be made at all. Then...

-The first time an user installs Ubuntu, he is given the option to set a separate /home. This option is selected by default, with a size for each partition based on a sane guess:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7958/firstinstallaro2.png

-Of course, he can just choose not to set a separate /home. This option will be selected by default if the results of the system test suggest that's the best thing to do.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6498/firstinstallbfs6.png

-Manual install is also possible. Selecting it greys out everything related to separate /home, since it's implied that the user doesn't want to be guided.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7976/firstinstallcvc2.png

-If the user set a separate /home, the next time he installs Ubuntu a new option appears and is selected by default, prompting to use the existing /home partition. All other options are still available, though.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9034/secondinstalliq1.png

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Pidgin saves account passwords in plain text (check the contents of ~/.purple/accounts.xml )

Saving passwords in plain text is wrong! The Gnome keyring is a perfect replacement for this insecure method and should be used.

Today Ubuntu has reached a stage where it can successfully replace windows in home as well as office desktops.
Actually many people are now switching to ubuntu or are now ready to give it a try.

As known to linux community, many hardware vendors have kept their hardware closed source.As a result the open source community has been unable to provide adequate support for the hardware.

usually the hardware we buy has a logo 'certified for windows vista', and similarly for xp.people never know whether it is open or closed hardware or how well the hardware is supported under ubuntu.

i know that there are websites which contain a list of hardware supported under ubuntu.

it would be nice to have a tool for windows which could gather the data about the hardware connected to pc (similar to hardware testing in ubuntu). Based on the data it should generate a friendly report about the current status of support for the available hardware,specially graphics card or wireless card.It would help to prevent any post installation blues.

An additional feature which could suggest the linux counterparts of installed windows applications would be a killer addition.

It wll go a long way in solving bug no. 1 in launchpad!

This issue is something I face regularly and thats why I'm posting it here.

I want a right click option on the updates in Update Manager which allows me to lock the version of a software and not update it. I know this functionality exists somewhere in Synaptic Package Manager, but still it would be convenient.

Example:
I have nvidia card on desktop and there was an intel video driver update recently, so it came up in Update Manager. I didn't want to install it obviously, so I unchecked it. But still every time I boot up, it shows new updates are available, and I see only that intel driver. If I get a 'do not update option' it would be handy.

Thanks

Actually, we can automount partitions on startup only by editing /etc/fstab by hand.

A beginner won't know what type of partition it is, what options to pass, or even what /dev/xxx his partition is.

A clean GUI for manipulating partitions could be adviseable.
It should be able to resize partitions, change their labels, automount them on startup, erase them (fast and full erase), and generally speaking configure them.

It could also be integrated with my other idea (tool to repair permissions: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7874/), so that you could repair permissions, scan (with fsck) your partitions, and manipulate them.