Contributor fishy5

It would be great to have Zimbra as a standard package. This would be a convenient way to setup mail server (dovecot for POP/IMAP, postfix for SMTP), antivirus, antispam, a neat web interface, mobile access etc.

It would be useful to connect to multiple wireless networks when you want to use your laptop as a wireless network repeater. Example: the router you have only broadcasts in a 10 meter radius, you want to use your laptop 15 meters away outback, you could put another laptop connected to the first network and rebroadcasting internet access on a second ad-hoc network.
Alternatively, it could simply rebroadcast the same ESSID.


NOTE: This is not a duplicate of #526 or #2698, both of which have nothing to do with multiple wireless networks or rebroadcasting.

Although this was copied from what is probably an april's fool joke, it directly made sense to me. The current directory structure is very confusing to new users and the one proposed below immediately makes sense to anyone:

/bin /system/executables
/boot /system/boot
/dev /system/devices
/etc /system/config
/lib /system/libraries
/home /users
/media /storage
/mnt /storage
/proc /system/processes
/root /users/Administrator
/sbin /system/executables/admin
/tmp /system/temporary
/usr /system/applications

(idea taken from http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/linux/debian/2008040101-renaming-directories.h tml)

This needs to be done for the current versions of Ptree and QBpro. This is the main brick wall we see over and over when migrating offices and small businesses to Ubuntu. I wish people wouldn't use such software for their accounting but they are married to them and so are their accountants :(

Pulseaudio is enabled by default on ubuntu hardy heron, it can fuse two audio cards, stream audio over (local) network etc.

Unfortunately, it's not installed by default on Ubuntu server editions. It would be great to have it implemented here as well so you could easily stream laptop sounds to your music server/high-end speakers for example.

My computer has a single bad memory address in it.
I should be able to use my computer.

Currently I am forced to limit the amount of ram it is able access by a simple cut off. There is a better way:
http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/

I am not even requesting this be on by default. Just the patch/source included in the repos.

Currently we let people test that they have badram, let's give them the best solution we have.

This seems pretty obvious. We need to have something that comes up that's lightweight (system resource wise) that will highlight the improvements of 8.04 over 7.10. Why not?

I know this is not Canonical business, but if ubuntu, and Linux in general want to gain popularity, its better if the filesystem they use is easy to be acessed by other systems...
Creating good drivers to read common Linux filesystems in Windows, and possibly Mac, etc...
There are different projects out there, but some can only read the filesystem, others may be unsafe (corrupt the filesystem) or make the computer unstable or have some usability issues...
Simply create/endorse safe ("ubuntu approved" or something...) drivers to read/write ubuntu (and linux in general) filesystems... something that work "outside the box", easily on smoothly...

I am used to doubleclick the icons on the notification bar in order to open the corresponding window (This is default for nearly every program (sound applet, skype, ...). The icon for the updatemanager has to be clicked only once, thats why i always start two instances of it. This is very confusing.

There are two primary media players out there. The iPod and the Zune. The iPod works in Linux. The Zune does not. If the Zune software were able to run in Linux via WINE, then us thousands of Zune owners would be able to get rid of Windows for good.

My idea is a push for Zune software to run in WINE. (Like Google Picasa runs in WINE)

I know this is not directly Ubuntu related, but the Microsoft Zune is a major media player and this will keep Zune owners from moving over to Linux (Ubuntu) as we do not want to brick our $200+ piece of equipment because it's useless if we cannot add/remove media to/from it.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=5741