Contributor hardyn

Sometimes, the end users search help pages, posts on the forum, on the IRC, on the launchpad answers section, but still, he is unable to find an answer to his problem, and is left all alone, what adds a lot of frustration. (has happened to me lots of times)

The cheaper support plan for Ubuntu costs $250/year. My suggestions is to offer an email-only support plan, that allows the user to open like 5 tickets/month, for a very low price, say, $5/month.

Use case: A person, let's call him Ethan, has Fedora, Ubuntu Hardy, and Ubuntu Intrepid installed on a new Dell laptop.
He confuses his swap partitions. He keep losing his hibernated sessions which he sometimes entrusts with unsaved data, and he doesn't really understand why.

Data specific to one operating system should not be stored in a swap partition when said operating system is not active. A swap partition may be best for use as swap space, but when a system is hibernated, that information needs to be stored in a file within the root partition of the operating system instance that is hibernating.

Only one swap partition should be needed on a multi-boot system.

The Power Policy Manager gives the user flexible control over power management, which is blatantly missing from GNOME power manager. Having policies to control power management is indefinitely more useful than the "one size fits all" approach of GNOME PM.
This should be leveraged - and possibly a GUI added - to give users more control over their systems power usage.

See http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/power-policy/

Promote cross-platform technologies (that we use) to third-party Windows software developers and ISVs.

Promote technologies such as GTK+, Qt, wxWidgets, OpenGL, OpenAL, GLUT, SDL, etc.

This will make it easier for developers to port their software to Linux. This will increase interoperability, and will make our software ecosphere grow, and it will make it easier for Windows developers and users to migrate over to Linux.

Microsoft likes to push proprietary Windows-only APIs and libraries such as Win32, MFC and DirectX to developers in order to lock them into the Windows platform, and avoid interoperability by making it difficult for developers to port software to Linux. This in turns makes it difficult for users who rely on those software to migrate over to Linux.

Hi All,

I know it is not all about GUI improvements/additions, but I always thought that an interface to modprobe would be great.

Showing available modules and modules loaded, with a short description for each (to know what the heck is that very module for), the option to (un)load, and the devices using them.

Something like this combined with modules delivered in deb packages would make hardware installation much easier and transparent (i'd like to know which modules are installed at the moment).

Cheers

I like "Utilities" better. Accessories sounds like stuff teenage girls wear in addition to clothing. Just because microsoft names their similar directory "Accessories" doens't mean it isn't lame... just my opinion!

I am a paid Apple Developer member. I used to program in Cocoa. However, a week ago I gave QT a try, and as an Apple developer, I was amazed (I actually preferred it over Cocoa in most places, and over time, I believe it may be over nearly all places). QT is cross platform, and what we need to do is actively compare QT4.4 against Cocoa towards developers, and you will win them over.

I propose that we push QT support as a major feature in Kubuntu 8.04 on the website, and flaunt its features vs Apple's Cocoa language. They are very similar concept wise, and everyone knows C++, so they will be willing to listen. And in fact, for developers, QT has a lot more opportunities :) Everyone likes a cross platform language (with QTJambi, its java, so you don't even need to recompile).

I've shown a few people interested in Apple development the latest QT, and they were also amazed. But now's the time to start pushing this, at launch, instead of mentioning QT vs Cocoa 3 weeks after a Apple Development conference which hypes everyone up so they don't want to listen. Or when Apple developers still think of Linux as lame coding libraries.

We need to get the word out to developers we have an awesome development library, which has fantastic development tools which can easily compete against Cocoa. Because if we succeed, it means a whole new generation of programmers on the linux platform, and a whole lot of new applications

Our problem is, we aren't marketing Linux at all towards developers of other operating systems with any ammunition other then "its free". Lets change that..