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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 JoshTriplett »

Symbiote wrote: post #291
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…

Why do you have a /boot partition? $ mountpoint /boot /boot is not a mountpoint I don't know if this is the default, but my KUbuntu machines have been fine for many years without a separate /boot.

If you want to install with full disk encryption, you normally want a /boot partition.

In theory, GRUB can load kernels off of a LUKS-encrypted partition, but in practice I've never managed to set that up without having two passphrase prompts, one from GRUB and one for mounting the root filesystem under Linux.

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

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Post by rspeer »

tobltobs wrote: post #61
lucky_cloud wrote: post #25

- 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

Wouldn't this mess up a lot of current server installations?

It already happened, so probably not.

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

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Post by c2h5oh »

- Flavor: Desktop

- Headline: Rolling mesa, drm & kernel updates

- Description: mesa is moving at rapid pace and it's improving a lot. Because versions are locked you might find yourself 6-8 months behind current stable and thats MASSIVE. That's why padoka/oibaf PPAs are so popular - but only among the more tech savvy users - the rest just look at the sad state of Linux gaming..

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

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Post by mey »

makmanalp wrote: post #437

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: Please don't mess with python package management - DESCRIPTION: Take a look at this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.4/+bug/129... This happened because ubuntu decided to unbundle some packages that come as a part of the python ecosystem. This is really a major annoyance because it breaks default behavior that people have come to rely on in every other platfor…

The same would go for RubyGems, but these are a Debian issue. Not sure how Ubuntu could untangle that.

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

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Post by gustavodemari »

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Disable Bluetooth on startup

- DESCRIPTION: Bluetooth is turned on when Ubuntu starts and people are struggling to deactivate bluetooth on system startup. For further references check this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/67758/how-can-i-deactivate-bl...

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

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Post by mlvljr »

j_s wrote: post #155
rxlim wrote: post #43

My biggest wish is Ubuntu (and Debian) switching from systemd to any other init system. I know that won't happen but I was asked and that's the only thing I want, whenever you like it or not.

The first thing I did after reading the Ask HN was Ctrl+F 'systemd'.

not only you :)

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

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Post by anonnyj »

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Fewer cryptic error messages

- DESCRIPTION: For example when on 64 bit Ubuntu and try to run a 32 bit program without yet having installed the appropriate stuff, you get a nice error to the tune of "no such file exists" (the same as when you normally try to access a file that doesn't exist at command line)

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Solo indie gamedev

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