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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 TorKlingberg »

karlmdavis wrote: post #60

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Please, please, please fix space issues with /boot. - DESCRIPTION: I'm constantly running out of space in /boot, due to kernel updates. It drives me so incredibly batty. If I had to guess, this is due to poor defaults in the installer for folks that opt to encrypt their whole disk. Even still, this system was setup back on 14.04 (don't think it started on 12.04), and I have no int…

I had this problem on a previous work laptop. Very annoying. I thought it was the local IT people who had installed it wrong.

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

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Post by Symbiote »

paulirwin wrote: post #277

- FLAVOR: all? - HEADLINE: Improve experience of using 3rd-party apt sources - DESCRIPTION: This suggestion is more apt related, but Ubuntu could lead the improvements. Many software providers (Microsoft, Elastic, etc) are using their own apt repositories to be able to deliver updates faster than the Ubuntu release cycle, which is great. However, configuring them usually requires Googling the instructions and at leas…

It's apt-add-repository.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/man1/add-apt-reposi...

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

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Post by simosx »

matthewbadeau wrote: post #164

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: Separate purge-old-kernels command from byobu package - DESCRIPTION: I like byobu, it's extremely helpful but I would prefer the purge-old-kernels script to be in a separate package. I like to run servers with the minimum amount of packages installed and don't really need byobu since most of my maintenance are remote commands. /boot gets filled up quickly and the purge-old-kernels…

This one would be useful.

There are several things to test, and things that may break. It is possible to get corner cases.

I would suggest to get purge-old-kernels on 17.10 in order to test it, and decide whether to put on 18.04 LTS later on.

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

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Post by nathan_f77 »

karlmdavis wrote: post #60

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Please, please, please fix space issues with /boot. - DESCRIPTION: I'm constantly running out of space in /boot, due to kernel updates. It drives me so incredibly batty. If I had to guess, this is due to poor defaults in the installer for folks that opt to encrypt their whole disk. Even still, this system was setup back on 14.04 (don't think it started on 12.04), and I have no int…

I agree, I've had to deal with this issue many times. I think it has happened at least 4 times in the last year. A few times I had to manually go in and start deleting old kernels because it had completely run out of space, so apt couldn't do anything without crashing.

I eventually set up a cron script to regularly delete everything except the last 3 kernels. I think this should really be the default behavior. "Save all the old kernels until you run out of space and everything crashes" doesn't sound like a very sane default.

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

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Post by tajen »

Ruphin wrote: post #56

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Better Mouse Settings - DESCRIPTION: Right now mouse acceleration is enabled by default, and for heavy mouse users this is really not usable. There is no way to change this behaviour in the mouse settings. The only way as a user to get a workable mouse configuration is with custom startup scripts, and it took me as an experienced Linux user and software engineer a long time to fig…

+1. It made me quit Ubuntu, along with another bug (Ethernet authentication).

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- ROLE: Java developer, now founder

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

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Post by doubleunplussed »

riskable wrote: post #255
3pt14159 wrote: post #217

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server HEADLINE: Secure, immediate isolation or power down DESCRIPTION: When a zero day like heartbleed comes out I want the operating system to give me the option to immediately disconnect from the internet, or even power down the OS. I also want the ability to call these commands myself so that if I have a wider scanner, like Appcanary, I can trigger the shutdown command myself. I want this command t…

sudo shutdown -h now Immediately halts the OS. sudo shutdown -r now Immediately reboots the OS. sudo ip link set eth0 down Immediately bring down the network interface (eth0). I'm actually curious how you are using and administering Ubuntu Server without knowing these things. Or at the very least, not stumbling across the "shutdown" or "ip" commands--ever.

Perhaps OP means they want to be able to turn on a setting whereby this automatically happens when a big zero day comes out - like, Canonical becomes aware that certain packages are vulnerable and has a way of pushing instructions to affected machines to tell them to isolate themselves.

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

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Post by orblivion »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

HEADLINE: Stable/working HDMI sound, up to date Syncthing

DESCRIPTION: I was excited to upgrade to Yakkety on my home server, because it has Syncthing (I'd rather not use their 3rd party deb), only to find out that it's too old to be compatible with my phone (they're still in the rapid change phase). Would be great if it were all compatible. Not too much in your control, just try to be as up-to-date as you can at the point of release. I know you can't upgrade mid-release.

As for sound, on Trusty, I had issues with HDMI. On Yakkety those issues went away but now I have worse issues. I use my server with Music Player Daemon. I have a headphone cord for now so it's okay, but I'd rather use HDMI and get the full benefit of my flac files.

Thanks!

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

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Post by beefield »

stevepike wrote: post #232
ThePhysicist wrote: post #166

Flavor: Ubuntu Desktop Headline: Good (or even acceptable) high-DPI & multi-monitor support Description: High-DPI support is really bad in Ubuntu right now, and multiple external monitors are poorly supported. Here are some of problems I experience regularly: - Ubuntu won't remember screen configurations when unplugging and "replugging" external monitors, which means I have to reconfigure them again and again. - Ofte…

I run gnome on Ubuntu because of how bad it was in Unity, but that's also not perfect. On a two-monitor (both 4k) desktop where I'm not plugging in or unplugging screens, waking from sleep will commonly only bring up one screen, or the arrangement will have changed, or it'll get stuck in a mode where the screens go dark after 10 seconds of inactivity. +1 that the UI scaling is nowhere near as good as OSX in either un…

Debian Gnome dual monitor setup also darkens one monitor regularly when pugging/unplugging screens, took a while for me to understand that it only sets the screen brightness of one monitor to zero. So adjusting the brightness up bringd the monitor back alive again.

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

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Post by simosx »

bubblethink wrote: post #63

FLAVOUR: All HEADLINE: Convenient snapshot & rollback by default DESCRIPTION: Possibly implemented as snapper + lvm thin provisioning or btrfs. Other distros already have this, but it is far from user friendly.

It would make sense as soon as the default filesystem becomes btrfs or ZFS. As it is now, it would need to be a feature that only appears if it finds that you have the proper filesystem.
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