Contributor holizz

This is an attempt at a unification of:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7081/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7390/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7649/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7725/

I can't think, nor have I heard, of any showstopper reason for why BitTorrent shouldn't be used as the primary download method of Ubuntu respository packages. Although the specifics of the implementation of this idea will be different for ISOs and repositories, I feel they should be unified in the brainstorm because the goal is to allow the rapid, efficient, reliable, and available download of Ubuntu software.

Implementation Benefits

1) Speed. All Ubuntu downloads (ISO downloads, dist upgrades, regular system updates, and new application installs) will as a whole be faster. Generally torrent download speeds benefit from higher numbers of downloaders that seed, which Ubuntu users have demonstrated they are prone to do. BitTorrent is better able to absorb (and eventually use as an asset) large numbers of users attempting to download data at the same time, such as with the recent mad rush of Hardy downloaders/upgraders.

2) Efficiency. The BitTorrent protocol has proven to be one of the most efficient methods of distributing data amongst a large number of clients. It will harness the collective upstream of tens of thousands of Ubuntu users, from DSL and cable connections to the fastest of corporate connections.

3) Reliability. Checksums guarantee the integrity of BitTorrent downloads, so data corruption is much less likely to occur. Only the pieces that fail checksum are redownloaded, contributing to points 1 and 2.


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Canonical should hire a legion of tens of thousands of Chinese programmers.
It will be very cheap, and Chinese people are very intelligent and hard workers. Always top A grade students, perfect score on all tests.

In China people work 20 hours a day for only like $2 dollar a day.
We can employ them for only 6-9 hours a day with a great salary of $5-10 dollar per day.

It will be a great deal for them, because they can work less and earn more.

It will be great for us, because we can hire tens of thousand Chinese programmers, a whole legion of them and increase the development rate by a factor of a thousand.

In today all keyboards has "win"-key. I propose to use this key by default for all WM/DE hotkey combinations (win+d, win+r, etc...)
This will uniform and preclude all conflicts with other desktop software.

i think its better to provide man page with examples rather than just giving a syntax of the commands , to make the newbies more comfortable

Say you want to input 'firefox -profilemanager'.

You can type in 'fir' and hit TAB and probably 'firefox' gets completed depending what's installed on your system. Now it would be sweet to key in a dash (-) to indicate you wish to input a switch and then either hit TAB to see all available switches for the command or type in, say 'prof' and then hit TAB to have it complete the wanted switch. (i.e. just like it now does with commands or file names)

One thing that's always bothered me, no matter which OS I've been on, is the way I can be typing in one window when another program tosses up a notification or error which immediately gets closed because I just pressed space or enter. I propose a mechanism be developed by which keyboard input is temporarily paused or halted if a window appears when more than X number of keys is being pressed per ten seconds.

I realise the difficulties inherent in this; a daemon or service would eat up unnecessary CPU cycles, it's impractical to patch every program in existence to follow this behaviour, and most other ways of doing this have one argument against them or another. However, if this were presented as an opt-in behaviour, I believe it would benefit a fair percentage of people for a relatively small amount of coder output.

Just because making thumbnails twice takes up space and takes time twice.

Precondition is, that the thumbs.db file format is known and rather simple, because reversing it would be far too much effort.

Pidgin support many protocols, including myspace protocol. Now is facebook protocol turn

When Firefox 3 is released, make sure it is available to Ubuntu on the same day, so the updates from the Ubuntu repository can be counted for the *Guinness world record* in most downloads in 24 hours.
And most importantly, talk to Mozilla about relaying your Firefox 3 repository download data to them.
More info here: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

Let's help open source achieve another great victory!

RE to developer: You would have counted downloads, not users...

To win people over to Ubuntu it needs to put significant resources into developing a video game on the level of GTA, Halo, or WoW. This would be an incentive for the millions of video game players out there to download and install Ubuntu on their desktops. Openoffice just doesn't cut it!

It's not an option for now of course, but everyone who use it saw the real speed web surfing that we need!

1) May be as a first step - use it i Ubuntu mobile (now I see Firefox is too heavy for it)
2) Chrome in Ubuntu

Some tests: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html

Hi guys,

I'm new to linux and got the idea to try running roaming profiles on Ubuntu 8.0.4 from a Windows AD environment.

Now on an Windows environment I'm quite comfurtable with such a small task although on Linux it's a whole new ball game. To be honest I don't know the first thing about the OS. Please...can somebody give me some advice with this?

Hi,

I suggest to the Ubuntu community, we should have a unique and complete development studio, in order to create great applications very coupled to the Operating System, in order to take advantage of the environment, standardize programming languages and not to fill up the system resources with a lot of interpreters, runtime or whatever frameworks.

For example, on Mac OS they have XCode, in Window$ Visual Studio, inclusive on KDE they have KDeveloper.

From my experience, when I try to make some software for ubuntu, I find great quantity of software development tools which makes difficult the choice.

I know that freedom comes with the liberty to choose too, and is ok, but in this aspect i thought that as a community we need to follow a North, and not everyone go to everywhere without any roadmap, each one going some on foot, some on cars, and in other parts (Mac, Win) going on airplanes...

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Ubuntu and all other Linux distributions tries to implement drivers at kernel level or something like that...
Why linux volunteers write driver ?
Linux should prepare only platform for device driver, not write driver code itself...

after the driver platform, any volunteer may develop driver, but DEVICE VENDORS SHOULD BE encouraged and helped to write drivers for Linux using that driver platform...

There are masses of Web developers out there, but transfering their skills to desktop applications used to be hard, since different programming languages and completely different interface patterns needed to be learned. Using any Web technology in a desktop application consisted of awkward hacks at getting Mozilla to live in GTK using GTKMozEmbed, which was usually harder to get right than simply learning the alternatives.

These days it is as easy to put a web page into an application as it is to put a button, thanks to WebKit (which has spurred Mozilla to make a less hacky embeddable version). This creates a massive opportunity for getting new applications developed, since Web developers can make a desktop application using all of their current knowledge by doing it all in a WebKit widget. This allows their applications to use synchronous method calls, local storage and resources as well as remote, desktop integration, massive speed increases, no need for servers and all of the administration, cost and security overhead that entails, and so on.

The problems currently facing adoption of this are twofold. Firstly, operating systems like Ubuntu haven't sorted out their WebKit and associated bindings and widget packages yet, making distro-agnostic installation using PackageKit useless, which would be essential when trying to attract developers used to simply publishing to a URL.

Secondly knowledge of these technologies needs to be spread to those communities which it may interest. This would need to come after the package situation has stabilised, and would probably require a few interesting demos to be written. People with one foot in the free desktop camp and one foot in the Web development camp would also be needed for spreading the word.

If successful such an effort could provide a wave of cross-platform applications with the advantages of both Web 2.0 technology and desktop technology. Hopefully the View Source nature of the Web would mean a lot of the new creations would be released as Free Software too :)

I think it would be useful to be able to "beam" an open document running in a given application to another machine.

Say you have an OpenOffice document on your laptop, and you want to move it to your desktop. Open Nautilus, browse to a remote machine's share and drag the file in, go to the other machine, navigate to the file, and double click.

Imagine if you could just drag the running program window to the network "Place" representing the remote machine. The program state is moved to the other machine and the Window pops up there.

Just like a Star Trek "Transporter" for running programs.

One trick would be if the application you need on the other machine isn't installed. If so, it prompts you to install it at that time. This would be an intuitive way to install programs.

Note this is not the same as XMove or just setting the DISPLAY variable. The point is to actually beam the running instance.

Ubuntu 8.04 comes with the GCC compiler but without the 'build-essentials' metapackage.
This makes GCC useless; its not even possible to compile a simple "Hello world" program.

Either have GCC not installed by default or have the 'build-essential' metapackage installed by default so that GCC works.

Create a TextMate clone for Ubuntu. A text editor used for programming.

Features to include;
* Tabs
* Macros
* Code folding
* Code snippets
* Shell integration
* Syntax highlighting
* Nested scopes
* Regular-expression–based search and replace

TextMate is one of those Mac OS X killerapps that many people who migrate to Linux miss.

It’s just an idea!! (For business issue only)

I was thinking about a new email kind that means nobody from internet can send me an e-mail if he doesn’t know my email secret code.

All email codes will be stored on file on the mail server (in a secure place) every time we receive an email we should check if there it contains a code if yes we compare with codes on the file;


If match === > e-mail OK, and will be delivered!!

If not match === > e-mail not ok, and we have 2 options, discard the email (spam) or forward it to a non-secure email address for an other checkup (spamc, mailfitre, clamv…etc..etc).

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A lot of people can know who you are in real life, but they can’t call you (you got cellular = email) simply because they don’t have you phone number (code) , or they can’t send to you a letter even if they know you location but not house number (code) !!

You only receive calls from persons that you gave your phone number, why not for e-mail??


Sorry for my English :o) Anyway it’s just an idea…

Colonel John F. Stallman is an ex-CIA operative who has been studying various martial arts in the Shanghai province. In his free time he is a Linux kernel developer who have contributed numerous scheduling and cryptographic algorithms.

Now the world is threatened by terrorists, so he have been called by the agency due to his exceptional skills.

* Muscle with Ubuntu tattoo
* High-speed car chases and hot pursuit
* Shooting down choppers and explosions!
* Jumping down from the ventilation duct using a rope
* Dodge this!
* More explosions!
* Stealthy silent assassination...
* Using Ubuntu laptop to hack satellite systems!
* Satelite laser fire system
* Sword fights!
* Saving the girl

He beats the enemy, hacks the systems using his Ubuntu laptop and gets the girl.