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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 fanf2 »

jnw2 wrote: post #876

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.

I guess Ububtu is waiting for Debian to update to BIND 9.11, but Stretch is still on 9.10. It is a pity the next Debian release is not on 9.11 since that will be an ESV branch. https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/

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

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Post by zaro »

tutuca wrote: post #598

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Go back to colaboration with gnome-project - DESCRIPTION: The fragmentation in the linux desktop is getting retarded, both effort (GNOME and Unity) are crippled by the lack of colaboration in the toolkits and applications. This was a marvel up until ubuntu 10.10 which was the last linux that anyone would need. I just miss the good old days. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Ubuntu enthusiast si…

This!

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

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Post by defined »

cromulen wrote: post #138
s_kilk wrote: post #8

- FLAVOR: Desktop - HEADLINE: More stable and polished desktop - DESCRIPTION: This one is hard to pin down, but I'd like to see more general polish and stability in the Unity desktop. One example would be around multi-monitor support, it's pretty good, but a bit funky in some places. For example, if I have a monitor plugged in and I let the laptop screen lock come on, I can sit there and watch while both displays cyc…

-FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop -HEADLINE: Network manager that works -DESCRIPTION: The single thing that would make Ubuntu seem 10x more polished than it now is the horrible state of the network manager. The little wifi bar in the top right. Sometimes, randomly, after dropping a wifi connection, or going to sleep and waking it will: 1) Stop listing SSIDs except the one I've already configured and want to connect to. (But I…

Yes. Network Manager is horrible.

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

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Post by bakhy »

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…

The old kernels should be purged automatically on desktops. That really is an annoying issue.

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

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Post by bdwalter »

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Make Ubuntu not suck on laptops

- DESCRIPTION: What I want is for Ubuntu to partner with someone on the hardware side to provide a meaningful alternative to the macbook pro that does not suck. The OS is already fine enough if you could make it work very well with a decent laptop out of the box. I have tried Dell Sputnik...endless software pain. I have tried System76... crappy hardware. Make a Linux laptop experience that does not suck and rivals Apple for quality. That is what I want.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Director of large IT/Ops team in large scale SaaS environment

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

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Post by Walkman »

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…

Yes please!! So painful. I also have dozens of applications open, all the time, which I lose when I dock/undock when in sleep...

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

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Post by kasabali »

AresMinos wrote: post #675

-FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop -HEADLINE: DTrace -DESCRIPTION: Dedicate some of your development time to port DTrace from FreeBSD to Ubuntu. -ROLE: CEO, Software Developer

https://github.com/dtrace4linux/linux/

I have no idea how well it works, though

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

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Post by fstephany »

hawski wrote: post #520
ing33k wrote: post #103

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: include f.lux or redshift as a default installed package. - DESCRIPTION: by including f.lux / redshift , Ubuntu will be helping users to get better sleep . I know it's very difficult to accommodate requests for default apps, but macOS and iOS has Night Shift, Android has Night Mode. Thanks !

AFAI(Nexus 5x user)K Android removed Night Mode.

They "improved" it. It is now only available on Pixel devices (because it needs a driver support).

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

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Post by pasbesoin »

Clear, "simple" control of the network stack and connectivity. The ability to start up totally off-line until manually establishing the desired connection. Network connectivity that can be made dependent upon having a working VPN connection up, and that dies completely upon failure of that connection. Everything can clearly be made to go through the VPN connection, DNS, etc. IPv6 can be turned off if needed (e.g. for Comcast). A single, if widget-filled and "busy", dialog box for managing this connectivity.

I realize a lot of this isn't strictly under Ubuntu's purview, but you said "anything".

I want not just to manually manage my own connectivity, at the terminal (and even then, the "die completely upon VPN failure" is not straightforward"), but for my family members, etc., to be able to do so, themselves.

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

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Post by thomastjeffery »

ambrop7 wrote: post #713
skamoen wrote: post #14

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop: 1. HEADLINE: A way to have different scaling for external monitors hooked up to my HiDPI laptop. Currently I need can only set a single scaling factor, so I need to ajust my laptop screen resolution to match scaling of the external monitor. If that's not possible, a way to automatically set resolution and scale for both screens once you hook one up would already save me a lot of manual switc…

One way to solve the scaling issue is to set the external monitor to a virtual higher resolution while still driving it at its native resolution (with scaling down done in GPU). Actually Linux/Xorg generally support this out of the box, it is just the higher-level software that would need to make use of it. You can try it youself: xrandr --output --scale 2x2 the result should be the given monitor will appear to have…

Unfortunately, this scales after drawing. The entire point of hiDPI is to have a crisper image. To achieve that, the scaling must be done at the drawing level.
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