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Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by Qwertious »

chimeracoder wrote: post #10

- FLAVOR: Desktop - HEADLINE: Bring back gaming support for AMD graphics cards. -DESCRIPTION: Pipe dream, but: the ability to run games with an AMD graphics card, the way we could with 15.10. Google "Steam AMD Xenial" and you'll see how big of a mess this is. As of a year ago, gaming on Linux was pretty viable with an AMD graphics card, using fglrx. However, because that was deprecated, it was removed in 16.04, and t…

For the R9 390, this[1] is a high-critical bug that has been outstanding for over 18 months. If it gets to 2 years old, I'm throwing it a birthday party.

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91880

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by khowanitz »

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

- HEADLINE: install RAID 1 boot w UEFI

- DESCRIPTION: Installation has gotten more difficult for a simple server since UEFI. Often would like to setup an inexpensive (e.g. Dell/HP) server with SATA and RAID 1 boot. This has become a difficult task.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Sys Admin

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by csdreamer7 »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Turnkey virtual GPU dGPU virtualization of Linux and Windows

DESCRIPTION: A turnkey (easy GUI setup) that uses virtual GPU support in driver to partition the GPU into multiple devices (or just two) where one can be shared with a Linux or Windows VM, on Windows this would allow dGPU (almost native DirectX 11 gaming) with only one graphics card (as well as on laptops). This would allow alot of Windows users to switch to Ubuntu as their main OS and only start a VM to use their privacy invading Win desktops to play games. Fedora is discussing something like this.

See this for more info. I realize proper vGPU support at the lower levels is a ways away, but so is 17.10 and 18.04 ;-)

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.1...

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by theandrewbailey »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #145
tiplus wrote: post #12

- FLAVOR: server / all - HEADLINE: remove sha1 PPA signatures - DESCRIPTION: remove the warning "signature by key uses weak digest algorithm (sha1)" and ban sha1 for PPA signatures - ROLE: user

This needs to be done slowly or you're going to piss a lot of people off with broken shit.

SHA1 is already broken shit.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by theandrewbailey »

najati83 wrote: post #127

- FLAVOR: All? - HEADLINE: Stop releasing every six months. Instead, have an LTS, like you already do, and then a rolling release that is conservative and battle-tested, like Gentoo does. To help with the rolling release, create an infrastructure that allows you to progressively release updates that could cause problems to some users (like an evdev -> libinput or a GNOME 3.22 -> 3.24 transition)

Have you tried backports? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by znpy »

hyperknot wrote: post #83
lucky_cloud wrote: post #25

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: Python 3 as default - DESCRIPTION: In lieu of a description, I'll just link to this: https://pythonclock.org - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Developer, sys admin

Opposing view: This would make me stay on 16.04 LTS for a long long time.

trigger warning: mean comment ahead.

Nobody cares about your special-snowflake needs. Python 2 should already be dead and we really need to have major GNU/Linux distribution start dropping it as default.

You can always set it up post-installation.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by cdnsteve »

tyingq wrote: post #21

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server HEADLINE: Smaller Docker Images DESCRIPTION: An official, skinnied down, Ubuntu image for docker and AWS AMIs would be nice. I have some clients that want to maintain some uniformity across host and guest, so they aren't interested in Alpine or Busybox images. But the Ubuntu image is ~200MB or so, where OpenSuse is about half that. I understand Canonical doesn't build those images, but you would…

I switched to alpine because Ubuntu docker containers were massive.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by singlow »

scribu wrote: post #100
lbruand wrote: post #53

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Automated night mode so I can sleep well after work - DESCRIPTION: Reducing the amount of blue light during the night is proven to help people finding sleep after having used their computer at night. So during the night, the desktop automatedly reduce the amount of blue light emitted on the screen by shifting the color balance. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Dev/Machine learner

Back when I was using Ubuntu, I could install an app called Redshift, which is basically the Linux equivalent for f.lux.

There is f.lux for Ubuntu. Although maybe not for Unity? I use Gnome.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by NoGravitas »

researcher11 wrote: post #180

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop HEADLINE: Dump Mir!!!!! DESCRIPTION: I know Canonical has put a lot of effort into Mir and at this stage it is probably "too big to fail". But for various reasons my bet is that it will fail. I think this is Canonical repeating Microsoft's Metro mistake. I have a $12K dollar desktop and I don't want an OS optimized for phones !!! I will be able to avoid it but I would rather your engineering ef…

They really ought to be using Wayland. There are technical reasons for Mir vs X11, but not really any for Mir vs. Wayland other than NIH.
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