It will be good with a NAS version of Ubuntu server. a Ubuntu version of FreeNAS. The problemet with FreeNAS is that it runs on OpenBSD platform and not Linux. There is no distributions of LINUX with target the NAS marked.

Dynamically Loadable Zones are already in Ubuntu's bind (DNS server) sources but not enabled for the compilation.

This feature is really useful : No bind reloading is required and rules can be simply shared between zones.

If installed manually, it's not hard to activate them (just change --with-dlz-mysql=no to --with-dlz-mysql=yes for mysql), but it needs to be recompiled for each update (And serious administrators update bind at least for each security update ; wich can occur quite often).

The last good point is that databases allow simple backups and synchronisations.

A good explanation of the differences between bind and bind-dlz is at http://bind-dlz.sourceforge.net/

If you install lucid server, for instance the dhcp3-client package is pulled in by ubuntu-minimal.
On a server installation this package typically is not needed.

There should be a easy way, and a marketable way, for IT professionals to propose a UEC/Ubuntu Server based solution for integrating Tablets/ Portable Devices / Cloud targeted laptops within a Corporate environment, Using Ubuntu Systems.

Information Technologies and services are evolving fast, there are a lots of new challenges in integrating these devices and Ubuntu could see its adoption grow very quickly with a solution allowing services with private clouds to be used with Tablet / Devices / Arm Based laptop computers solutions.

Ubuntu Allows a lot of very secure features like Encryption of data, Secure remote connexions that other devices struggle currently with, and that Slows down their Corporate integration.

As those devices tend to LIVE on the cloud, it is important to keep local storage requirements low, and use their always connected capabilities.

It is taking the opposite direction of Google Chrome OS, which will work only with data stored by Google servers.

I manage 4 schools that run ubuntu on their computers. Currently we use Zentyal Server (linux dist) that runs OpenLDAP for central authentication. But it does not give us SingleSignOn etc. It also hosts SMB shares for user files etc.

Typically a dj has to take requests and locate items in his library or get them in order to play them, but it would be faster if the listener located the song himself.

Google's Chrome OS presents a huge leap forward in ease of use and mobility. However there issues with 3G connectivity cost, privacy, what happens when the Internet is down, etc. Android tablets will have a similar issue, although they will be able to run some apps locally.

In the wake of Chrome OS and Android, what is required to cater for when the Internet is down, and when you don't want to put private data on the cloud, is a private cloud server appliance to which Chrome OS and Android can connect to by WiFi and which can provide some cloud services, web apps, and desktop sessions, and media streaming which are up even if the Internet isn't (via Citrix client or better still NX or RH Spice). When the Internet is up, the Ubuntu intranet/extranet/cloud server appliance would allow access to a home server from the office for example. The hardware would be in the form of a Zbox style ipx form factor desktop PC which can be bolted to the back of a monitor, with a 300GB hard drive and should allow one user to use it as a conventional desktop, while any number of other users can login using WiFi to run desktop sessions at the same time. The pre-configuration of a NAT firewall, child content protection filter, VPN etc. so these are idiotproof, and automatic updates are essential.

There is also a need for a small business version of the server. Lots of small businesses use Google Apps, but there is the issue of what happens when the Internet is down. The ability to host a webmail server on the appliance to which GMail is copied to from the user's GMail account will allow Gmail users to access emails and attachments when the Internet is down. In addition, while the cloud is fine for most data, most users of Google Apps will want to host large files and at least some personal files locally on a private corporate cloud server rather than on a third party cloud server. The ability to provide Ubuntu desktop sessions and virtualised Windows desktops using Citrix/RH Spice/NX, are also useful. Preconfigured firewall/ router/VPN, remote backup/data mirroring with rdiff-backup/backupninja/archfs/rsync, redundant routing between multiple ISPs ethernet connections, Samba authentication server (Samba 4 ADS would be nice if possible) or with single sign on using Google password (if Google allows it). The appliance will probably be in a hardware format similar to that used by NAS servers with space for expansion and a web interface to configure it. Support for Google cloud printing to various local printers would need to be included.

Ubuntu Landscape should be an open-source software and free for download, that would increase the migration of Windows workstations to Linux.

Landscape is a Systems management and monitoring with it we can Manage multiple Ubuntu systems by a central dashboard.

This is the project site: http://www.canonical.com/enterprise-services/ubuntu-advantage/landscape/systems -management

And contrary the whole universe open-source the canonical charge for this system, the system should distribute it free to accept contributions from the community and only charge for support.

Currently the distribution of updates or software packages in general is quite centralized - we are all dependent on an expensive server infrastructure: the mainserver aswell as all the mirrors.

It's very kind of all the different institutions which run ubuntu mirrors to allocate ressources to the community - but we have to realize that dependency is the opposite of freedom. The power of Free Software lies in the fact that we all depend on each other but not on a few benefactors. In the current situation we get more dependent on these 'benefactors' the bigger our community gets.

We should find ways to reduce the communities dependency on expensive server infrastructure.

Ubuntu has an easy way to install LAMP (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP) but what about others like lighttpd, postgresql, mongodb and others?

it will be nice if there is a tool to make us to build our flavor and auto configure them to work as we have with LAMP to day!