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?

#21

Post by tyingq » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 12:37 PM UTC

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

HEADLINE: Smaller Docker Images

DESCRIPTION: An official, skinnied down, Ubuntu image for docker and AWS AMIs would be nice. I have some clients that want to maintain some uniformity across host and guest, so they aren't interested in Alpine or Busybox images. But the Ubuntu image is ~200MB or so, where OpenSuse is about half that.

I understand Canonical doesn't build those images, but you would have the expertise to help them thin it out. Some wrapper around debootstrap or similar to make a thin server image?

ROLE: Help various clients with docker and AWS.

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

#22

Post by JensRex » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 12:37 PM UTC

- FLAVOR: Any

- HEADLINE: OpenSSL v1.1.0

- DESCRIPTION: Do it! I really want ChaCha20 and Poly1305.

- ROLE: Server admin / desktop user

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

#23

Post by yuvadam » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 12:38 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #7

Excellent support for Apple laptops.

Apple laptops are known to come with hardware with very shitty open source driver support, there's not alot Canonical can do if they don't get good drivers for the various hardware components.

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

#24

Post by pjmlp » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 12:39 PM UTC

- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Improving developer experience

- DESCRIPTION: Currently installing the Qt relating tooling requires messing around with package sources to install the SDK tools. This shouldn't be required.

Additionally it would be nice if ubuntu-make got a better UX than just remove/install, eventually some nice GUI on top of it.

Finally better 3D hardware support.

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

#25

Post by lucky_cloud » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 12:39 PM UTC

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

- HEADLINE: Python 3 as default

- DESCRIPTION: In lieu of a description, I'll just link to this: https://pythonclock.org

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Developer, sys admin

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

#26

Post by Insanity » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 12:39 PM UTC

- FLAVOR : Desktop - HEADLINE: Fix UI for file extraction - DESCRIPTION: When I extract zip files, the UI when the extraction is done has all the buttons glued together. It is such a small thing that I feel a bit silly for posting it here, and wish I just had a bit of time to actually dive into this myself. I will take a screenshot of the Archive Manager when I am home later today.

ROLE - Software Engineer

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

#27

Post by edance » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 12:39 PM UTC

- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: New icons by default!

- DESCRIPTION: There are a lot of good icon sets out there that are easy to install. I think a better default icon set would make the desktop look a lot smoother and cleaner.

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

#28

Post by maxnoe » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 12:41 PM UTC

Please finally upgrade to opencv 3

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

#29

Post by notspanishflu » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 12:41 PM UTC

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Phone

- HEADLINE: I want a snap-based Ubuntu Phone now

- DESCRIPTION: Being a click-based Ubuntu Phone supporter from the beginning, do I need to say more? Ubuntu show me some love!

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: beta-tester

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

#30

Post by Apreche » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 12:42 PM UTC

Flavor: Desktop

Headline: Surround Sound

Description: If a user has a media file or application that wants to play surround sound audio, 5.1 or higher, it should work properly and automatically. AC3, Dolby Digital, dts, etc. should all function properly with all different hardware configurations.

I'm aware that it is possible to make it work properly with some effort, but it is not elegant or automatic. The user should not have to do anything special. It should "just work".

For example, a user has a surround sound system connected to their computer's optical output. They play a media file or DVD that has a surround sound audio track. That audio track is selected. The surround sound should play properly with no further special configuration. The user should not have to know that pulse audio or whatever even exists.