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This raises a number of concerns:
- the EULA refusal doesn't prevent the user in any way from using Firefox, therefore EULA's is just noise added to the user experience.
- the EULA agreement would make firefox a non-free application which should be moved to multiverse.
- refusing the EULA would (legally) leave the user without a browser in the default install.
- EULA approval on first start would make firefox less usable when using the Live CD.

So far the options are the following:

- Keeping firefox as it is, even with the EULA.
- Switch to Epiphany as the default webbrowser.
- Adopt IceWeasel from debian (which is firefox, with logo and brand replaced)

You can find the full discussion here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/269656

*** If you'd like to vote for keeping firefox as it is, vote this idea. ***

if you preferer to adopt IceWeasel vote this idea:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13201/

if you prefer to adopt Epiphany vote this idea:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13202/

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Most of you might be aware of the copyright issues which Mozilla had with Debian. This made the debian team to repackage Firefox removing all the copyrighted material in Firefox as IceWeasel.

I believe the Ubuntu philosophy and the Debian "Social Contract" are mostly similar. Hence all the issues Debian had with Firefox must be the same with Ubuntu.

Hence, I think the package Iceweasel must atleast be present in the ubuntu repositories so that people who want to use it as a matter of principle can do so. It should not be much work since Debian is maintaining that package anyway. We can just use their package as we do for most of the other packages.

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I am abandoning this idea; it may be closed. Good day.


It recently became apparent that Mozilla is going to let us
A. Require users to agree to a EULA or
B. Lose their brand.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjcxOA

I say the latter is preferable-- and I think we should immediately take advantage of this newfound freedom: starting with the GUI layout-- because things shouldn't have to be so frigging complicated. As an example, my firefox window layout is such:

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[title bar]
[menu bar] (back) (forward) (refresh) (+tab) (stop) [Awesome Bar]
[tab bar if tabs > 1]
[content]
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This places the most often used part of the awesome bar right in the top-center of my screen, and because the default layout is so redundant, I lose very little convenience. The Awesome Bar performs search for me, it stores bookmarks, it shows security, and tabs show when a page is loading. To mind, the only functionality I lose with this layout is the display of link destinations in the status bar when I hover over them (I don't have a status bar, recall) -- and that's something I can easily live without, it's just a right click +p away.

The Firefox default GUI layout is a screen real estate hog, and I think this is the perfect opportunity to be rid of it.
Debian saw this problem coming a long time ago, I recommend we follow their strategy: make IceWeasel the default browser, perhaps modify it slightly, and stick Firefox in multiverse.

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1. Creating a fool-proof system too often results in creating a systems for fools only. I personally think that Vista is the best example for this. By trying to make Vista more secure they made Vista more annoying. Starting to protect the system and the user's files from the user himself brought the system one step closer to foolproofness but also tends to be most irritating to the rest of us. Also by making everything as easy as possible alternatives, customization possibilities and adaptation are often eradicated.
2. By imitating Windows you most likely will attract Windows users. They will work with Ubuntu for a while then change back to Windows because you can't work on Ubuntu like on Windows and it also doesn't behave like Windows.

Windows and OSX might have some nice|useful features. And most of them are implemented into Gnome|KDE by now. So I think that we should stop with copying but start creating. Of course useful features should still be made available to Linux but the creation of new features should be more important. And by implementing new features, copied or created, functionality, customization and adaptation should never be limited. Also if it means that that particular feature might not be that "easy" to handle. e.g. providing a simpler GUI for apt is okay but replacing the package manager with a setup.exe like system would limit functionality.

Ubuntu should attract users with innovation, stability and possibility and not by providing "just an alternative". Constantly coping from Windows|OSX also demonstrates a certain inferiority. And Linux|Ubuntu are no more inferior. We slowly but surely caught up by now, so now we should start to overtake.

I don't want Ubuntu to be like Windows or OSX!
I want Windows and OSX to be like Ubuntu!

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Note: I completely rewrote this post because the first version was written in a too emotional state of mind and seemed to be partially just a rant against other brainstorm users, Windows and OSX. But the idea is still the same, although modified by adding information I thought was necessary due to comments from other users.

I'm adding the original post here as reference to certain comments and votes. So if you feel I left out an aspect from the old version please comment on it and I will try to add it.


Nearly every second to third idea here is "Ubuntu should be like Windows|OSX", "Ubuntu should look like Win|OSX" or "Ubuntu should copy this or that from Win|OSX".

Why? To trick people into using Ubuntu? Why the heck would this be good? I'm no Redmond fan but I have the feeling many people want to make Ubuntu popular to smash Windows|Microsoft. And I do not think that that should be the main goal.

I think the main goal should be to improve usability, stability, and everything else thats important for a OS to be good, and NOT to make it as fool proof as possible so that every idiot can just click around and do everything.

I mean look at Windows, thats exactly what they are trying to make it. As fool proof as possible and that ends by asking the user how many times if he is now really sure that he wants to delete this icon from the desktop or if he doesn't just want to think a bit about it again a little bit before doing so. And if Ubuntu starts to go that way then it will end up that way.

I want Linux to be user friendly for doing everyday stuff like browsing, checking mail, writing stuff, and so on.

And I want Linux to be feature rich and stable while setting up a ftp server, installing packages or just playing around a bit.

(Okay, a GUI like Synaptic for installing Software is nice for people that don't want to go bash hacking each time they want to install something. But getting rid of the package manager system?!? NO WAY!)

And Ubuntu should merge these two worlds! Like for example installing software:
Easy way = Synaptic,

but still also

Powerful feature rich but maybe bit complicated way by times = shell

Thats my point of view. I hope you think the same. I don't want Ubuntu to become like Windows or OSX!

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http://tennessee.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=510030

related: http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=1230
Using load options 'USB'
Error: Not Found returned from legacy
Error: Not Found from LocateDevicePath
Error: Not Found from LocateDevicePath
Error: Not Found from LocateDevicePath

Apple Radar #5892269

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→ This is very frequent problem and a lot of beginners dont'know why fix the problem/resolve it.
Just please look here: see - https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+faq/52 - this FAQ located/placed on Launchpad website and during 1 month there are already 15 "related questions", so that means this is very often problem.

It would be fine thing to have some automatic utility to fix this problem, but it will be enough to make this error message more user friendly (for now it's very misleading information).

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The Ubuntu GRUB would have extra options:
- Backup and recover of the system
- Access to the secondary kernel versions list
- Memory Test
- Recovery Mode.

See the Blueprint below

Blueprint
734 x 1024 px
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3076/2565372159_1fe09da5c6_b.jpg

1749 x 2441 px for download
Copy and paste the link in your browser to start the download, for viewing.
http://lh3.google.com/nq6.studio/R8m3O_x-smI/AAAAAAAAAZs/2ZU53X2YNWM/Grub-EN.jpg?imgdl=1

I developed a Blueprint of how all this would be, making possible the graphical visualization of my ideas. I'm sure that all of it is easy to implement, because the tools to realize these processes already exist.

With this we would have a more organized GRUB, and with options that a lay person would know how to deal with in case of a wrong configuration of the system, recovering it on accessing the essentials backup files of configuration. Or in a worse case, even the entire partition image, where the problem is unrecoverable even with the recovering of the system files.

Ubuntu already have the recovery mode option on GRUB, but it's only accessible and usable by Geeks, Hackers, and advanced users. Never a lay person newly arrived from Windows. What sense make access Linux in text mode? A lay person would recover what? And how?

There are available applications like the Simple Backup Suite - it depends of the system are already logged in to access the backup - and a command like dd that makes a image of the entire partition, and it depends of a another similar command at that command line:
gzcat -dc hda.img.gz | dd of=/dev/hda

My suggestion is that Ubuntu do it all automatically and make available a entry on GRUB to recover the system. Like we can see, the tools already exist, it only need to be better used.
These backup files would stay in a another partition, available to be accessed and used to recover the corrupted files on the install partition. I think that would be essential Ubuntu create a second (2º) partition for Home and these backup files, because if the partition get corrupted, we still would have another partition with these files.

Beyond that entry on GRUB, the backup configuration would generate a bootable CD that are capable of recover the GRUB, in a case of a install of Windows later than Ubuntu's. How a lay person would access that GRUB, if it disappeared, and with that same CD - he beyond of recover the GRUB - would have access to the system backup, and the previous entry's generated.

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Created by nq6 - http://nq6.blogspot.com/

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As workaround I have been able to do so by assigning one group to the owner and another group to the group. With the different permissions.

This has work so far, but it makes more sense for the owner to be a user instead of a group. Also you could need to use different permissions to more that two groups.

Hope this makes sense.

If you liked this idea, check out my other ideas.

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Try typing any of the following characters in the console:

- Accented vocals: á é í ó ú
- Spanish ntilde: ñ
- Spanish punctuation symbols: ¡ ¿
- Euro symbols: € ¢

This problem is in Ubuntu since Hoary, at least.

In my opinion, Ubuntu must take care of the console, and not only of the graphical desktop.

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I suggest to make a system that offers the /home/user map via the internet. Providers can offer an account(or companies) which can be accessed at any computer supporting the protocol.
The idea is to modify gdm(and/or kdm) in such a way that when you start the computer you'll get a login screen which not only asks for your username and password, but also for the host and maybe another security thing to improve that.
The directory will be mounted over the internet.

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There should be a volume control or just a "mute" button in GDM Login window.

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Basically, it is a filesystem that 'Justs works', without the user having to worry about mount options and the like.

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