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It's interesting for all 3D games, or other apps.

I hope 3D developpers will be interested, and will migrate to GNU/Linux.

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In Ubuntu the same thing become very difficult, especilly copying multiple files: you have to access to the terminal and write a command. This could be really stressing for a new user.

Could you implement the same function seen on Mac?

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The site only allows you to order 7.10 Gusty Gibbon CD's. What's the use of ordering outdated CD's that will arrive several weeks later when they will be of no use anymore?

Please, allow us to pre-order CD's of the latest version of Ubuntu.

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Improvement went from 54 errors to 4.
Ubuntu.com Failed: 4 Errors
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fubuntu.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

All Ubuntu websites should pass the W3C validation checks. (none appear to currently)

For reference:
Microsoft, Redhat, Sun, Novell, openSuse and Apple fail.

Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, Gnome, KDE, Opera, Firefox and OpenOffice.org pass


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How difficult would it be to implement a single login?

Update : NOT a duplicate of OpenID idea #9.

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It`s a bad habit introduces by microsoft. Do not ask questions in the middle of the installation after you did already started to copy things.

(1) The user starts the installation.
(2) He is asked if he wants to install.
(3) Make as many hardware tests as you need.
(4) Now ask all needed questions.
(5) Install Ubuntu in one run. Tell the user he can no go away for perhaps X minutes.

Otherwise it`s annoying. Input answer, wait a bit, input answer, wait again over and over again. You can improve this!

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We could ask him to do one or adapt one for Ubuntu.


http://mrvista.net/

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In systems with little of ram or when we run a lot of programs that would be very useful since it would organize our data in the memory necessary to expedite the power system.
In addition, a good option would be to force load programmes in the RAM and not in the swap as possible (as long as there RAM available), and these would be used much flow

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It should be fast and with just few command/option.
It's only a reader, like evince or kpdf for pdf.

As other people said it could be add the possibility to open ODF file to evince or another existing document reader without make a new one.




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(OS independent of course!)

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Often just a tiny effort, could raise their rating from lets say 3 to 5?.
(personally i will always choose the product with rating 5)
The least one should expect from a vendor, is to find information how to install/tweak their product into Linux.
At ubuntuhcl.org they can se what the Linux users think of their product.

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First there's the traditional unix system, exclusively utilizing /etc/fstab. This is the only system used at bootup.

Then there's various desktop-specific mount systems (gnome-volume-manager, thunar-volman, whatever kde uses). And then there are various other mount systems such as pmount, whatever hal uses behind the scenes, usbmount, etc. These do not reference /etc/fstab at all.

The upshot of this is that disks are mounted in different places depending on whether they're plugged in during boot or hotplugged later on. Mount location may also vary depending on the user's desktop environment. Hotplugged drives are only mounted if someone is logged in and running the appropriate volume manager. And it is difficult for an administrator to override the default mount location.

It would be ideal if these could be unified into one system, so that:

* When a drive is hotplugged, it is mounted in the same place every time with the same settings, regardless of which (if any) user is logged in or which desktop environment (if any) is in use at the time.
* A drive can be manually mounted and unmounted from the command-line and GUI, and will be mounted at the same place every time, and in a human-readable location. (i.e. not the UUID or device filename, but using the volume label or a location predefined in fstab)
* one command-line program handles mounting. This would obviously require modifying the mount program so that it doesn't only care about fstab.
* a drive is mounted in the same place regardless of whether it's connected to the system at boot time (currently handled by mount/fstab) or hotplugged later (currently handled by various programs).

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EDIT:
It can be manually disabled with

Option "NoLogo" "True"

in xorg.conf, but the logo should be disabled by default.

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Oftentimes, all I'm interested in is using a particular Virtual Machine (from VMware Workstation/Player, or Virtualbox). It feels like overkill to log into Gnome (taking up considerable RAM and CPU on weaker computers), just so that I can, in turn, launch a Virtual Machine in VMware or Virtualbox (and then go "full-screen", which hides Gnome anyway).

It should be possible that VMware Workstation/Player, and/or Virtualbox be choices in the "Select Session" dialog of GDM. That is to say, VMware/Virtualbox should behave, and be treated like "Desktop Environments" (in their own right) as far as GDM is concerned. Each of these Virtualization Softwares could be thought of as a "Desktop Environment proxy" because the VMs that they run contain their own equivalent of a Desktop Environment.

This would be a great feature whenever multiple people use the same computer, but some obstinate people may ONLY want to use a Windows VM (directly after logging in), while others want to log into a traditional "Desktop Environment" like Gnome. In this way, a stubborn Windows user who does not want to learn Ubuntu can still be cajoled into using an Ubuntu computer, since they can still easily use a Windows VM, never having to learn how to use Gnome (or KDE, etc.).

This would be a far better option than having a computer being "dual-boot" between Windows and Ubuntu. By using this method described, whenever a Windows VM is in use, the Ubuntu box can still be:
-SSH'ed into remotely for system maintenance
-logged into remotely over XDMCP
-files can remotely transferred in and out using SCP or samba, etc.

The "Ubuntu-ness" of the host machine ("underneath" the Windows VM) would also make the computer more secure (less prone to viruses, etc.), if "NAT" networking is used within a given Windows VM.

Kiss dual-booting goodbye, when this brainstorm comes to fruition!

In time, perhaps Virtualbox and VMware Player would eventually gain a few new features as well, so that they can behave better as being the entire "Session" for the user. For example: VMware Player/Virtualbox starting in full-screen mode (since no Window Manager like Gnome's would be handling this), when they are passed a command-line option something like "--become-window-manager". Another example: they could automatically start a favorite VM (after a 5 second pause, allowing the user time to possibly choose some other VM to start instead).

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