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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 inetknght »

keithpeter wrote: post #837
inetknght wrote: post #773

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Is there a better medium for feedback? - ROLE/AFFILIATION: C++ Software Engineer, currently in the genomics industry, in Houston, TX - DESCRIPTION: All-in-all, I've been pushed to Linux out of sheer hatred of the direction that Windows is going. I'll never install anything newer than Windows 7 ever . When Windows 7 goes End-Of-Life, I'll go 100% Linux. Apple's products are neat bu…

"Upon reflection... maybe I shouldn't be using Ubuntu." "Is there something similar to EPEL but for Ubuntu (and other Debian derivatives)?" "If I have to touch my mouse, the interface is probably doing something wrong." What do you find lacking in a CentOS/EPEL install that Ubuntu gives you? There are lots of keyboard oriented window managers around and some 'structured evaluation' (aka waste a weekend distro hopping…

> What do you find lacking in a CentOS/EPEL install that Ubuntu gives you?

The most recent version of software. I've found CentOS, in particular, to have ancient versions of software in the repos. EPEL helps, but it only goes so far.

> I find KDE with a few adjustments fine for most things and Gnome Shell seemed fairly intuitive after a year on dwm

I tried out KDE recently. Maybe it was an old version. It reminded me a lot of oldschool classic Mac OS. Easy to find things, but things don't have a lot of features or options. Gnome Shell... it's okay and there's a ton of under the hood options. But there's practically zero way to access them without either insider knowledge of what to configure and where, or else having to go install even more software.

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

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Post by spockalot »

...I'd like to see for to NOT use 'Screen Saver', 'Sleep', Etc on any 'Installs'....does not this interfere !?!? I've had issues where they messed up permanently a simple normal installation of OS or Program and had to do it again, but without them it always worked the way it was supposed to!

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

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Post by spockalot »

...I'd like to see for to NOT use 'Screen Saver', 'Sleep', Etc on any 'Installs'....does not this interfere !?!? I've had issues where they messed up permanently a simple normal installation of OS or Program and had to do it again, but without them it always worked the way it was supposed to!

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

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Post by unicornporn »

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Disable the Launcher

- DESCRIPTION: Me and many other are not too happy with the launcher. It should be possible to disable the launcher (not just hide it with a forced "reveal location"). This option should be so easy to implement.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Web developer, photographer, tinkerer.

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

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Post by jnw2 »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

HEADLINE: Static IP address option in installer

DESCRIPTION: When I install a new server that should have a static IP address on a network that has a DHCP server, it would be nice if the installer would give me the option to configure the static IP address, instead of it initially getting a DHCP lease and then needing to have the static IP address configured by editing /etc/network/interfaces after booting off the hard drive.

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

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Post by jnw2 »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

HEADLINE: bind package with support for DNS cookies

DESCRIPTION: https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01387/0/DNS-Cookies-in-BIND-9.... describes DNS cookies; last I checked, it seemed that Ubuntu wasn't in any hurry to upgrade to a version of bind that turns DNS cookies on by default, and also probably wasn't passing the build time option to turn on DNS cookies on the version that was being shipped.

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

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Post by jnw2 »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, and Ubuntu Core

HEADLINE: bounds checking gcc

DESCRIPTION: https://gcc.gnu.org/extensions.html mentions bounds checking patches for gcc. Get these patches updated to work correctly with the current version of gcc, and get most of the Ubuntu userland compiled with bounds checking enabled (and then gradually work on making more and more of the userland compatible with bounds checking, and also extend it to the kernel). I suspect paying for this development work would be cheaper than paying out a $10,000 bug bounty every time someone finds a bug that could have been rendered irrelevant by bounds checking support.

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

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Post by anodari »

karlmdavis wrote: post #52

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: More stable dock/undock and sleep/wake handling. - DESCRIPTION: I've noticed that my system often hangs unrecoverably with a blank screen during dock/undock and sleep/wake events. I've learned, though, that I can reduce the likelihood of having problems by trying to minimize the number of state changes that the system has to handle at once. For example, if I'm leaving the house wi…

My laptop, everytime I open from sleep, is starts but it donesn't turn on the screen. I have to close and reopen, then it turn on the LCD.

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

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Post by jnw2 »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server

HEADLINE: DANE for TLS in Firefox, wget, curl, etc

DESCRIPTION: Support TLS server verification using TLSA DNS records protected by DNSSEC as described at http://www.internetsociety.org/articles/dane-taking-tls-auth... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na... ; this should have a smaller attack surface than the current mess of X.509 certificate authorities that are trusted by web browsers. Doing this well may require better client side DNSSEC validation; my impression is that DNSSEC validation deployments in the real world today often tend to have only the recursive resolver doing DNSSEC validation, with a potentially insecure connection between the client and the recursive resolver. Firefox probably ought to check the entire DNSSEC signature chain itself.

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