Provide an area that will show all pertinent system info in one place. Like in windows with my computer properties. Should show the flavor of ubuntu, the release, ram, swap, cpuinfo, battery (if any), kernel version, disk usage, etc.

vim-tiny is a bad editor in which we can't correctly use arrows keys !
Please replace it by the default version of vim...

add the short CTRL+ALT+CANC to launch an process killer

# 1 : How about getting rid of /opt and instead making it /etc/opt.
#2 : how about merging /media and /dev.
#3 : what about merging all the .config files and configuration directories to /home/$user/config/*
#4 : what about moving application resources (icons, .desktop files , help files) along with the virtual wine hard drive to a central folder called /usr/config ? this would minimize the effort required to locate icons and other items.
#5: what about moving the /home folder to a virtual hard drive stored as a loop mounted file on the hard drive ? then you would be able to simply copy that single file off for backups every week , and only backup the overall system by the month. Plus this would make hard drive quotas and limiting storage space per user much easier.

Please seriously consider #5. It really ought to be considered as an option upon install.

#6 : what about providing a dynamic man file that opens whenever you Cd to /dev , and displays whatever info ubuntu has about devices attached along with a brief description organized into columns?

PS : please feel free to separate these into individual brainstorms

I don't know Linux whatsoever. For users like me, it would be excellent if we could easily install programs built for windows - even if this means a baked in or optional emulator. I would like to install programs such as World Community Grid (www.worldcommunitygrid.org) or Zone Alarm etc... and I can't because they aren't in a .tar .gz format or whatever

(please forgive my simple windows-brain)

First of all: What is the difference between Preferences and Administration? For example: why do I see 'Encryption and Keyrings' in Preferences and 'Keyring Manager' in Administration? What is the difference between 'Default Printer' and 'Printing'? Why do I have to disable the Tracker under Sessions and not under Search and Indexing? And why are these menu's so large? I have 24 items in Preferences (they don't even fit on my screen!) and 18 items in Administration. To put all this stuff in a popup menu is bad interface design imho. Besides, the number of option should be much smaller. A few suggestions:

Below are all settings I can visit via the System menu. This is just way too much.


-- Preferences --
Universal Access
About Me
Appearance
Bluetooth
Default Printer
Encryption and Keyrings
Keyboard
Keyboard Shortcuts
Main Menu
Mouse
Network Proxy
PalmOS Devices (I don't have one)
Power Management
Preferred Applications
Remote Desktop
Removable Drives and Media
SCIM Input Method Setup (What is this?)
Screen Resolution
Screensaver

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Adding a "Secure Delete" feature to shred files in the trash can beyond recovery.

1. There are deeply invasive performance/scalability/latency fixes for CFS regressions (vs. 2.6.24) in the 2.6.25 tree. These fixes are too invasive to be ported to the 2.6.24 kernel without significant risk.

2. Many of the driver updates/new drivers in the kernel-ubuntu package are merged into upstream as of 2.6.25. (This is always true, but the smaller the delta against upstream the better on release day).

3. Fedora 9 is based on 2.6.25 which means that key RH kernel developers are aggressively working to get the feature and performance/scalability regressions vs. 2.6.18 & 22 fixed.

4. The kgdb patch will probably be merged at the start of the 2.6.26 cycle which means the delta vs. 2.6.25 kernel should be pretty manageable. This would be really valuable from an LTS ongoing perspective.

5. The RT patch will be better maintained (and smaller) against 2.6.25. (see #3)

6. Better virtualization and SELinux support (see #3).

Given the life-cycle of an LTS release (especially this one which will finally have a meaningful chance to enter the data center) these considerations are especially important.

Obviously 2.6.25 would have to be in addition to 2.6.24 for the Hardy 8.04 LTS release time-frame, but it does allow the aforementioned benefits to be propagated forward.

Please build an Ubuntu/Hurd Live-CD, so I can easily test GNU/Hurd. :-)

This issue is something I face regularly and thats why I'm posting it here.

I want a right click option on the updates in Update Manager which allows me to lock the version of a software and not update it. I know this functionality exists somewhere in Synaptic Package Manager, but still it would be convenient.

Example:
I have nvidia card on desktop and there was an intel video driver update recently, so it came up in Update Manager. I didn't want to install it obviously, so I unchecked it. But still every time I boot up, it shows new updates are available, and I see only that intel driver. If I get a 'do not update option' it would be handy.

Thanks