Contributor clonedagain

First of all: What is the difference between Preferences and Administration? For example: why do I see 'Encryption and Keyrings' in Preferences and 'Keyring Manager' in Administration? What is the difference between 'Default Printer' and 'Printing'? Why do I have to disable the Tracker under Sessions and not under Search and Indexing? And why are these menu's so large? I have 24 items in Preferences (they don't even fit on my screen!) and 18 items in Administration. To put all this stuff in a popup menu is bad interface design imho. Besides, the number of option should be much smaller. A few suggestions:

- Merge 'Screensaver', 'Screen Resolution' and 'Screens and Graphics'.
- Merge 'Network', 'Network Proxy' and 'Network Tools'.
- Merge 'Update Manager, Synaptic Package Manager, Software Sources'.
- Merge 'Encryption and Keyrings', 'Authorizations', 'Keyring Manager'.


Below are all settings I can visit via the System menu. This is just way too much.


-- Preferences --
Universal Access
About Me
Appearance
Bluetooth
Default Printer
Encryption and Keyrings
Keyboard
Keyboard Shortcuts
Main Menu
Mouse
Network Proxy
PalmOS Devices (I don't have one)
Power Management

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Ubuntu Mobile is targeting Intel MIDs for the moment, but the eeePC is so close to it in spirit that UME could be a very nice alternative to the default Xandros shipped by Asus.

The machine is really cheap and it seems popular. It doesn't have a touchscreen though.

Ubuntu works on the eee, but people report various hzrdware problems (not tried myself yet).

I understand why Ubuntu freezes its repositories with each release, for stability and reliability reasons. I would want to have a corrupt libc package after I updated my system now would I ? But where's the harm in shipping the newest version of compiz fusion for example ? Let's say I found a serious bug in compiz fusion (which i DID find) which is affecting the productivity on my Ubuntu system, the way things are now : I would submit a bug report, wait for a reply, the bug will probably be fixed upstream, but i still wouldn't get any fixes delivered to me, I have to wait till the next Ubuntu release ! This methodology of delivering an up-to-date system should be planned all over again.

Because of active development of Netbeans IDE we need more often updates. For example, last patch available for NetBeans 6.0.1 (2008-02-20) but in repository only Netbeans 5.5

Initially I doesn't make sense, I know it. But, some times when you try to install the Gnome or KDE desktop after the default installation it doesn´t work very well or at all.
It supposed to be a server system for Linux experts (and it is absolutely well done), but also it should consider be able to been administrated by a new web master like me.
This make sense when you install de server system in a remote sever. It is so difficult to start the GUI without an assistance service.
(Or include the option at least)

Yeah, 'MySQL, Apache, & PHP' installed by default for servers.