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I would like to be able to call a professional call center with Ubuntu professionals that would help you solve your problems very fast. I wouldn't care about paying maybe 1$ / 1€ per minute or something like that. Because I just want it for emergencies.
But I don't want to pay the 300 $ plan for unlimited support, I want a happy medium !

This way I think Canonical could make more money (so have more to develop Ubuntu), and address a demand.

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Wouldn't it be useful if Canonical could review the logs from the repositories to see which packages are being downloaded most often when deciding what software should be installed by default, and which to leave in the cloud till the user asks for it?

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Why in the hell some keyboard manufacturers, having nothing related to Microsoft, are still selling keyboards with a Microsoft logo in a key? It's completelly nonsense...

Btw, i think shop.canonical.com should sell also 'winkey-free' keyboards as well! ;-)

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In Sweden we have two very worrying laws coming up.

1. The "FRA-law" that gives the Swedish security police the right to wiretapp and datamine ALL international data traveling through Sweden.
2. The "Logging-law". Telco operators will be obliged to collect all information about their users whereabouts and keep that information for a year.

We have to work towards the aim: Security by default - and I'm not talking about the system, but to protect our datastreams from being wiretapped.

Me personally think that PKI is the solution to use here whereever possible. IF a session to/from a Ubuntu-system could be read in clear text the user/administrator should be aware of it.

Postfix is important here, Dovecot as well - all emails should be send over encrypted channels by default.

Mark Shuttleworth with his huge knowledge in Digital Certificates (He sold Thawte remember) would be of great help here.

I would like to see Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu leverage an infrastructure and create services to provide their community with a good, PKI-based solution.

Privacy matters

Sincerely
Niklas Andersson, Swedish TechWorld Open Source

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Why don't disable screen saver when power settings turn off the screen? it would make ubuntu more "green" because it won't use the CPu or the GPU for processing drawing for the screensaver.

As always comments are accepted

If you want take a look to my others idea

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. some IBM people and even Mark Shuttleworth recognized Design has a main key on the next Linux versions.

. the appearance of an Ubuntu sub-distribution like UbuntuStudio is an example of how welcome an Ubuntu-based distribution focusing this target is so welcome.

. intiatives in the academic and professional areas of graphic design, video edition, music, arts, architecture, etc., like from http://constantvzw.org (their Linux users seems to be mostly Ubuntu users) shown us how needed Linux is in these areas, so strongly dominated by Adobe and Autodesk monopolies and lobbies. Cooperation between Ubuntu community and a so enthusiastic and quality-targeted initiative constantvzw.org is would be awesome!





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I think this might be useful not only for web designers, developers, but also for simple users that may keep them electronic books in HTML format, or README, INSTALL files.
Let's face it a lot of documentation can be stored in HTML.

Thanks guys!

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Who is also not tired about the ms-windows-like desktop icon arrangement, from left edge up to down? MacOS and BeOS has different desktop icon arrangements, and even more 5 combinations are possible as well.

This feature is available on ReactOS since some years, i'd love to see at Gnome as well! =)

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this one could be available at http://shop.canonical.com

my concern is on what is writted in this Dell webpage - from Ubuntu to XP is a downgrade, not upgrade...

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Why don't create a platform for the drivers and not only the drivers??

Let me explain, the platform would be a library with tha most generic open drivers which linux has, and the developer when they need to write a new driver they start from the platform and they extends the generic driver creating one more specific.

for example graphic cards. we have mesa driver which works everywhere, if we provide vesa inside a driver platform which could be extended who wrtes drivers (users and vendors) would have an easier life during their production.

I hope this could help

As always comments are accepted and sorry for my English.

if you like this idea take a look on my other ideas

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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?


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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



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As it currently stands, the benefits of this would not be particularly obvious, as most thin clients are in fact quite thin. However, as the system requirements are (and will comparatively stay, I believe) relatively low to operate as a thin client, each generation of retired desktops will continue to increase the amount of unused cpu time on each thin client.

Now consider that the current trend in hardware strongly favors multi-core machines. A larger and larger percentage of normal desktop applications are being written to operate in parallel (when possible) to better make use of SMP. Because SSI implementations appear very similar to a large SMP machine from the viewpoint of the applications which run on them, I would expect that eventually the benefits from SSI running on thin clients will allow LTSP servers to scale better with multiple users.

There are a number of different SSI or near SSI projects which could be used, some examples include:

Kerrighed
LinuxPMI (based on the 2.6 branch of openMosix)
openMosix (now inactive)
OpenSSI
Mosix (nonfree)

The largest problem with implementing any of these is that they generally rely on fairly specific kernel versions to work (openMosix, the most extreme example of this, is stable in the 2.4 series).

I believe the easiest (but not necessarily the most efficient) method to get something working might be to run a custom kernel in a virtual machine. This would also ensure a portion of each client's memory could remain unallocated from the cluster, preventing some of the possible losses in performance due to an over loaded thin client. It would also allow for truly thin clients to remain merely clients.

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However, as it stands these options are limited to window management, like "close", "maximise", "move", etc. If an application wants to use arbitrary options which are always accessible in the panel, they have to make a notification area icon. For instance many music players create such an icon so that play, next, stop, etc. buttons are always available. These icons take up space in the notification area and are not notifications at all. Often, clicking on them produces a minimise/restore effect exactly like clicking on a window list entry does. To me this seems completely redundant.

Allowing applications to add arbitrary entries (such as play, pause, etc.) to the right-click menu of their window list entry would allow the notification area icon to be gotten rid of, as all of the functionality they allow would be available.

Since many applications use a notification area icon due to its cross-desktop standardisation implementing this would have to be done through freedesktop.org to create a cross-desktop, cross-platform, language-agnostic specification.

This idea doesn't touch upon the exact method of doing this, or the display (for example adding the options above window management ones, below, in a sub-menu, etc. this would probably be left to each window list/window manager implementation)

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