Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by dustinkirkland » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 9:43 PM UTC

rogueKittyMeow wrote: post #636

I would love to see native grsecurity support in Ubuntu 17.10. Given the latest exploit news from America's intelligence agencies, I feel that a stronger approach towards security should be taken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grsecurity

Ah, interesting! So this one would be super for Ubuntu security, but it's fantastically difficult :-)

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

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Post by dustinkirkland » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 9:53 PM UTC

andy_ppp wrote: post #123

I want to see project management build in at the OS level. By this I mean being able to completely segment my workflow between screens as follows: Screen 1: Work - Email filtered for work - All programs automatically put files into the project's folder - Docker containers and even separate localhost so I can bind to port 80 on different screens. - Different Browser history Screen 2: Startup Project - Same but everyth…

What an interesting idea! :-)

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

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Post by dustinkirkland » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 9:56 PM UTC

schoen wrote: post #539

Hi Dustin, thank you for your work on Ubuntu and for asking for suggestions here. It's impressive to see the range and specificity of things that people have come up with.

Wow, you're so right! I asked the HN community, and wow, has the HN come through!

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

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Post by dustinkirkland » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 9:58 PM UTC

itomato wrote: post #543

FLAVOR: ALL Take your Snappy and leave the Debian ecosystem once and for all.

Classy. Constructive. Thank you for your contribution.

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

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Post by dustinkirkland » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 10:07 PM UTC

steelframe wrote: post #878

ext4 encryption. It's better then eCryptfs in nearly every way. Carry the patches for the HEH encryption mode for the file names, because who know when it will get merged upstream, and you really don't want broken file name crypto.

As one of the co-authors of eCryptfs...I wholeheartedly agree! I hope we can get to EXT4 encryption soon :-)

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

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Post by dustinkirkland » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 10:12 PM UTC

newsat13 wrote: post #488

- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Server] - HEADLINE: CPanel like UI for server management - DESCRIPTION: Any reason why this is not already done? Or is this outside the scope of ubuntu? There are millions of control panel but one that is supported properly by ubuntu would be awesome.

There are multiple options for Ubuntu that are much more modern than CPanel.

For management, see: http://landscape.canonical.com

For easy addition of server workloads, see: http://jujucharms.com

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

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Post by dustinkirkland » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 10:15 PM UTC

dsacco wrote: post #109

Hey Dustin, thanks for doing this. I have several, so I hope this comment doesn't break your grep :) FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop ------------------------------------- HEADLINE ONE: Easier setup of Nvidia official graphics drivers for Ubuntu instead of nouveau. DESCRIPTION ONE: I know this might be somewhat orthogonal to development of the OS itself, it might even be a documentation improvement. But I use Ubuntu as my dail…

This is fantastic, rich, response, thank you very much. I love your 3rd suggestion. That's a great idea.

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

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Post by dustinkirkland » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 10:18 PM UTC

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

Ah, yes, I've heard this one a few times. Have you tried the BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) and bcc tools? These are shipping now with 16.04. While it's not dtrace, it's certainly in the same family of deep inspection of a running system...

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

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Post by dustinkirkland » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 10:19 PM UTC

NetStrikeForce wrote: post #391

System management through PowerShell! :-) (This might not be as much for Ubuntu's team as for PowerShell's team though)

You know that you can get PowerShell on Ubuntu now, right? https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/docs/in...

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

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Post by itomato » Wed, Apr 05, 2017, 2:13 AM UTC

dustinkirkland wrote: post #964

itomato wrote: post #543

FLAVOR: ALL Take your Snappy and leave the Debian ecosystem once and for all.

Classy. Constructive. Thank you for your contribution.

Idiot.