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- HEADLINE: Better upgrade between LTS versions.
- DESCRIPTION:
I recently upgraded my Ubuntu server from 14.04 to 16.04. After the upgrade my file system was stuck in read only mode. I had to google around to find a fix.
I would be nice to have all these types of issues organized under an upgrade area to make problems like this less painful.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Hide/Move/Replace the Unity Menubar - DESCRIPTION: Please have an auto-hide function at minimum? Better would be to move the time/settings to the "dock" when you set the "move the menus to the app windows" option, and then removing menubar entirely. - RATIONALE: It was awful the last time I used Ubuntu on a multi-monitor setup, wasting space on all displays. And having to click an…
This is a topic debated to death between Mac and Windows users. Here is the argument in favor of the Mac/Ubuntu solution. The time it takes to hit a target is inverse proportional to its size, according to fitts law. A menubar at at the top has infinite height, thus it is a really large area to hit. In practice that makes it much faster to hit a menu bar at the top than inside a window. What you don't want is an auto…
I feel like this would be even less of an issue with Ubuntu, since it has the menu-bar search feature, where you can "press" a button by typing it's name rather than looking through the menus.
The ability to use a non-X based installer on the default disc would be nice. I have an Nvidia gtx 1060 and I can't figure out how to install Ubuntu. (I've successfully installed Debian, gentoo, arch, centos, and fedora on this system using curses installers)
Did you try installing from the server ISO?
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server HEADLINE: Simple support for modifying installed packages from source DESCRIPTION: For instance if user wants to modify system installed Python to either submit a bugfix/ implement an improvement/ add instrumentation. User should be able to easily do something like a. apt fork python forkname (checks out python source code) b. apt build-fork forkname c. apt install-fork forkname d. apt revert-fo…
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: Better handling of apt and dpkg locks during apt-get upgrade/update - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Cloud hosting provider - DESCRIPTION: Thanks for taking our feedback! I work in cloud services and deal with many Ubuntu 16.xx users of various skill levels. One of the most common issues that I see are folks reporting that the "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" commands fail on newly deployed…
Is this Cloud Hosting Provider part of Canonical's Certified Public Cloud program? If so, I would be very surprised to see the kinds of issues you mention here. And if not, this is exactly the kinds of issues we routinely see with clouds which are not part of Canonical's CPC.
I know that this is very unlikely to happen, but I wish Ubuntu had rolling releases. For me it would be okay to have a new version every 10 years (for heavy migrations like UEFI, 64 Bit, systemd). I had Ubuntu on most PCs at home, but switched most of them to Arch, as I was sick of the 6-mothly horror upgrades. - FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Rolling Releases - DESCRIPTION: make a distribution which does not req…
So, for the record, that's exactly the approach we're taking with Ubuntu Core. We're getting there! Thanks for the feedback.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: First boot post-install hook - DESCRIPTION: There is currently no clean way to have a script run only once post-install, first boot. There are hacks for making this work to a degree, including things like self-deleting init scripts. I would most prefer to see this hook officially supported in robust way. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Systems Engineer
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: Default swap space doesn't make sense for servers with HUGE ram - DESCRIPTION: Recently I tried to install ubuntu on a server class machine where it had huge amount of ram and disk storage was spread across many ssd disks. Apparently due to the size of the ram, ubuntu was attempting to set aside so much swap space that it was taking up most of the boot disk! It was very painful to…
In any case, I hope you'll be pleased to learn that 17.04 will actually use "swap files" rather than "swap partitions", which are far more easily adjusted after the fact, than swap partitions.
BSD kernel
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop HEADLINE: Terminal-Icon on LiveCD-Desktop Please put a shortcut to a terminal emulator, somewhere visible, on the desktop of the Ubuntu LiveCD. Whenever I have to use that disc in an emergency situation, I'm glad that there is an icon to amazon (in case I forgot the URL of amazon), but I'm always struggling to figure out how to get to a bash prompt