System management through PowerShell! :-)
(This might not be as much for Ubuntu's team as for PowerShell's team though)
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?
#392- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Integration with Microsoft Active Directory - DESCRIPTION: Would be nice if in enterprise environment single-sign-on (logging on with kerberos) would work out of the box :). Samba shares in nautilus are usually also slow (against windows server, between linuxes is ok) or have some other logging in problems. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software developer using Ubuntu in enterprise, which o…
+1, and one of the few things I miss from CentOS. It handles domains beautifully. You run one command to join the domain, and for the most part, everything else Just Works.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#393FLAVOUR: Ubuntu Desktop HEADLINE: Bluetooh that works DESCRIPTION: I never managed to have my PC playing music through blutooth to a bluetooth loudspeaker. (I'm using Xbuntu, playing mp3s with mpv.) I think it could be because the audio system seems messy: should I have jackd enabled? What is it? So maybe the headline should be to cleanup audio system, specially its routes.
Bluetooth not working isn't necessarily Ubuntu's fault. Bluetooth is a complicated, broken, cluttered, crumby protocol.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#394FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
TOPICS: Encryption, Apt, Wayland, Bluetooth, and GPU
HEADLINE: Encryption needs to work easily and not be a pain with path names.
DESCRIPTION:
Home folder encryption. Feels like basic security. But there are a lot of problems that seem to come with it. One of these is the path length issue. This issue has been known for A LONG time. To me it is unacceptable that this has not been solved yet. There are a lot of security conscious users on HN. There was just a story the other week about the TSA accidentally giving a guy's laptop to another passenger. All work laptops need to be encrypted too, but it is such a pain when someone has a large path name in their build. And as others have mentioned about dual booting as well as encrypting after the fact (this is an options on Winblows and OSX).
At this point encryption should be an easy thing. Users need to do it but it is hard to get them to when it is not a few buttons away.
HEADLINE: Make Apt smoother
DESCRIPTION:
There are a lot of things I love about Ubuntu, but a lot I just love about other distros. I was a long time Arch user, and what kept me there is Pacman. The AUR is great, but there were a lot of simple things that were just nice. "pacman -Syu" will update AND install in one command. You'd also have updates with negative disk space. I wouldn't lose so much to root directories with junk. I know I am nit picking here but it is the little things. I do find this difficult when teaching new people linux too. "Wait, what do you mean I have to upgrade? I thought I just updated all my packages? What are all these files that it says I should 'autoremove'?".
HEADLINE: What do you want? Wayland! When do we want it? In a reasonable time.
DESCRIPTION:
Wayland, we've been waiting a long time and are excited about it.
HEADLINE: "How do I connect my bluetooth device on linux?"
DESCRIPTION:
I hear this all the time. It should just work.
HEADLINE: "How do I install CUDA?"
DESCRIPTION:
GPU. This should also just work. I'm still surprised how many problems I face with this. It feels like 2/3 machines I install CUDA onto has minor to serious graphic problems upon upgrade. Enough that I just don't bother with some machines. I know this isn't directly your fault, but you definitely have more pull than us individual users. A lot of us choose linux because it is a great programming environment. I'd love to see Canonical and Nvidia have a good relationship. They look to be wanting to make headway in ML. Programmers love Linux. It should work out for everyone.
ROLE: User
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#395- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: 1st party hardware - DESCRIPTION: I'd love to buy hardware from Canonical that will just work, just like I do with Apple. Dell comes close, but not close enough that I will recommend it to people. System76 build quality is something I hear people complain about, so I can't recommend them either. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software Developer, Ubuntu Member and Ask Ubuntu moderator.
Someone should make a Nintendo Switch-like PC that runs Linux; a full desktop-strength OS with a touchscreen UI when in mobile mode, that you can dock at home, or into a laptop-like chassis you can carry around (like Apple's Smart Keyboard), and get the full desktop UI. The home dock would have more powerful, user-customizable and user-upgradeable hardware, and the OS should seamlessly handle the transition.
BQ put out an Ubuntu tablet that is similar to what you're talking about, I've heard bad things though. However that is the goal of Ubuntu for mobile.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#396FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop HEADLINE: Better security processes DESCRIPTION: I've been quite disappointed that there wasn't really any public reaction from Ubuntu to a variety of security issues affecting the Linux Desktop in general and Ubuntu in particular. E.g.: https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.dk/2016/11/0day-exploit-... https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.dk/2016/11/0day-poc-risk... https://donncha.is/2016/12/comp…
Hi Hanno - Ubuntu Security Team member here. Thanks for the feedback!
I wanted to point out that we did have a public response to the four issues that you mentioned. We quickly fixed them! If I'm remembering correctly, we had updates available within 24 hours of the first two issues you mentioned. The second two were privately disclosed to us and we had updates available at the same time the issues became public (thanks again to Donncha O'Cearbhaill and Ilja Van Sprundel for those vulnerability reports!).
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-bad0.10/0.1...
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-bad0.10/0.1...
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3157-1/
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3246-1/
Note that the first two issues were in packages that don't receive official security support so we didn't publish Ubuntu Security Notices for them.
I think we did a good job of reactively fixing those issues. You seem to be asking for more of a proactive approach (audits, sandboxing, etc.) and that's a valid suggestion. We are making progress there but not specifically due to the issues you listed.
The security team does proactively review the code of packages, which have an attack surface, just before they move into the "officially supported" state. Sometimes that involves fuzzing depending on what the piece of software does. It is a technique that we're trying to use more often.
We're also heavily employing sandboxes by default in the world of snaps. As more debs turn into snaps, those packages will get the added benefit of strong isolation.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#397- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Proper virtual desktop / spaces for multiple monitors (i.e. independent, per-monitor spaces) - DESCRIPTION: Right now it isn't possible to switch workspaces on two or more monitors independently. This is possible on Mac, and is a huge productivity boost. Coming home from work to use my personal Ubuntu machine always feels like a step backwards for this reason alone. I want to be a…
A huge +1 to this.
My main system right now is macOS with 2 screens. 1 Main screen for all my development/browsing with 2 desktops, personal+work. Second screen for things that are always there no matter what desktop the main is on, such as IM/email.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#398FLAVOR: Desktop HEADLINE: Pick an official laptop for the release. ROLE: End-user, Sysadmin, Developer I would love for Ubuntu to, with each release, pick a laptop vendor and a laptop and just Make It Work. All the components. Out of the box. As near perfect as one can get it. So when I'm in the market for a new laptop, I can just buy that one. And I'm not talking about a pro gear like the XPS. Just simple, cheap con…
>, pick a laptop vendor and a laptop and just Make It Work.
I think what you're also looking for is and for the LTS release, ensure it continues to work on updates.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#399FLAVOR: Server, Core
HEADLINE: Snaps are too hard to make
ROLE: DevOps, release, infrastructure engineer
DESCRIPTION: In fact they are so hard and convoluted to make that I always fall back on just comiling and packaging everything inside a Vagrant VM or a Docker container and then just generating a tar or deb with FPM. You guys really need to simplify the process if you want software to be delivered through snaps.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#400- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: Incentives for Non-Linux Software Developers to Reconsider Ubuntu / Linux
- DESCRIPTION: I have three tools (or groups of tools) that I still use other OSs for:
Adobe Tools (primarily Photoshop and Illustrator) Sketch Serato
I can't imagine there to be much reason for these to not work on linux any longer. I'm already a paying customer for all of these, and it's absolutely unfortunate that I have to load up a VM or separate computer on occasion to use them.
Steam made some major headway in this regard, and I think that momentum should be supported and increased.