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-Headline: Heat reduction
-Description: Laptops running Linu in general run a lot hotter than Windows or Mac.
It would be a big win if the heat dissipation is comparable to Windows or Mac on the same/similar system out of the box.
-Role: Unbuntu Desktop user
HEADLINE: cacti package that works
DESCRIPTION: 16.04 LTS shipped with a cacti package of a version written for PHP 5, but shipped PHP 7, and Ubuntu's effort to patch cacti for PHP 7 compatibility was incomplete. When I reported a bug with using more frequently than once a minute polling resulting from this, I got a response that seemed to indicate that Ubuntu was in no hurry to fix it. I ended up simply switching from Ubuntu to CentOS with the epel repository, which avoided both the bug I did report, and some other buggy behavior that I suspect may have a similar PHP version incompatibility root cause that I have not wasted the time to track down.
HEADLINE: AS112 inspired mirror system
DESCRIPTION: https://www.as112.net/ describes a largely uncoordinated system for providing somewhat localized servers to handle certain DNS zones. It seems to me that something somewhat similar could work for anycasting mirrors of major free software distributions. I suspect that public peering point operators and ISPs might be most likely to participate if a single server could act as a mirror for Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc. It would be best if the clients were set up to fetch a list of packages and their checksums from the centralized servers operated by the distribution maintainers, and then would try to fetch the packages from the local uncoordinated mirror, and if the local uncoordinated mirror either doesn't have the file or has the file with a bad checksum, would fall back to fetching the file from the official centralized server.
Flavor: Ubuntu Desktop Headline: a more up-to-date apt-repository Description: I'm tired of having to add PPA:s for when I need fresh copies of software. I've never not needed Latex, Python, pip, Gradle, etc. now for most of these apt-get works fine but not LaTeX, Gradle so for now I have a bunch of scripts that I run, for instance https://github.com/leksak/settings/blob/master/install-tex.s... I'd look to CoreOS for…
Flavor: Ubuntu Desktop Headline: a more up-to-date apt-repository Description: I'm tired of having to add PPA:s for when I need fresh copies of software. I've never not needed Latex, Python, pip, Gradle, etc. now for most of these apt-get works fine but not LaTeX, Gradle so for now I have a bunch of scripts that I run, for instance https://github.com/leksak/settings/blob/master/install-tex.s... I'd look to CoreOS for…
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Dismissable Notifications - DESCRIPTION: I have been using Ubuntu from 10.04. One thing that makes be curse Ubuntu is when my notifications cannot be dismissed. I expected it at-least when it moved to Unity but that never happened. Although I have been living with it, this is something which catches me frequently. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software engineer and maker
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Dismissable Notifications - DESCRIPTION: I have been using Ubuntu from 10.04. One thing that makes be curse Ubuntu is when my notifications cannot be dismissed. I expected it at-least when it moved to Unity but that never happened. Although I have been living with it, this is something which catches me frequently. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software engineer and maker
If someone hasn't said it already, I'd love to see a keyboard shortcut akin to Windows's snap-to feature.
- HEADLINE: An option to automatically reopen applications that were previously running, after a reboot.
- DESCRIPTION: Not sure what else to say. MacOS has that.