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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 jesalg »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

1. HEADLINE: More robust backup tool

As a user who recently switched from Win 10 to Ubuntu Desktop, I tried to setup nightly backups of certain folders to my NAS device with Déjà Dup. After installing missing dependencies and tinkering with the settings for a long time, I finally got it working. Once I did, it wasn't reliable at all. I kept getting various different illegible errors.

IMHO having a robust backup software that just works out of the box would make switching to Ubuntu Desktop more easier and compelling for the average user.

2. HEADLINE: Better GUI to manage VPN connections

Right now there is no way to open the network manager and setup a VPN connection like there is on MacOS. I would like to be able to import my .ovpn file and just click connect.

ROLE/AFFILIATION: Engineering Director @ Kadenze (an EdTech Startup)

I must add that I have found solutions to both the above-mentioned issues but they are technical / complex in nature and not something a layperson would be able to setup very easily. Ubuntu Desktop has come a long way but for a desktop OS to be able to go mainstream, things like that just have to work out of the box.

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

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Post by kasabali »

pksadiq wrote: post #139

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Any (preferred this to be in upstream Debian) - HEADLINE: binary diff updates for apt-get. - DESCRIPTION: I have seen Fedora updates as binary diffs. It is very small, uses less bandwidth and space, and gets installed faster. This request isn't really for Ubuntu 17.10 though (I don't know if there is enough time for this). And I don't wish (actually I hate) this to be an Ubuntu specific feature. I wi…

For vanilla Debian you can use "debdelta". It is not integrated to apt-get and it misses a lot of packages but still helps a lot compared to downloading full packages. Ubuntu would need a separate delta server for it to be usable for their packages.

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

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Post by mtalantikite »

- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Core]

- HEADLINE: support for small embedded devices

- DESCRIPTION: There is a need for a robust Linux OS that targets true embedded devices. For many embedded applications a device like the Raspberry Pi or Samsung Artik 10 is much too large. There are many development boards coming out that couple a micro-controller with a micro-processor side connected over an onboard serial connection, and many use custom builds of OpenWRT on the micro-processor side (Arduino Yun, Arduino Industrial 101, Tessel 2, etc). This turns into lots of disparate, custom made OpenWRT/LEDE based systems, but ultimately it's a lot of overhead for a small team to maintain their own build of OpenWRT (which is mainly focused on routers anyways). Having a tiny embedded Ubuntu on the boards (that then talks to our Ubuntu systems on AWS/Google Cloud) would save a lot of duplicated effort.

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

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Post by educar »

jhoutromundo wrote: post #767

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server / OpenStack (ClearOS) -HEADLINE: Embedded "cPanel" alternative. -DESCRIPTION: Like ClearOS, focusing on easy server administration though web , Ubuntu Server could have an embedded alternative to it. All the free thirdparts alternatives (ZPanel and others) are painful to install, have super bad UI and deliveries some inefficiency tools due to OS. Even the payed ones have this problems, but mos…

Have you seen cloudron.io?

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

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Post by garyx »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop 16.04

HEADLINE: Fix multi monitor different resolution scaling without imprisoning the mouse cursor.

Description: This bug here, actual working scaling with different resolution display using xrandr --scale.

I have been banging my head against the wall on this one, it's a reasonably hard fix I can imagine but the benefits with 4K screens coming and real scaling between displays with different resolution actually working would fix my current headache. This is imo such a basic thing when using a multi monitor setup and now with a new 4K laptop and 1080p extra monitor I want to kick a donkey out of frustration.

Mostly because the exact setting I need is there and it scales the display just the way I need it. But it's bugged and the mouse cursor is stuck to traversing the unscaled resolution.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/8...

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

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Post by maulx86 »

dustinkirkland wrote: post #945
maulx86 wrote: post #926

- 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…

Absolutely happy to have your feedback, so you're most welcome! 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. https://partners.ubuntu.com/programmes/public-cloud

Thanks for your reply.

Currently, no, we're not in the CPC program. But that's something we will definitely consider.

Based on the CPC overview, it seems like the Ubuntu team can make specialized images for folks in the CPC program. Which is great, but a design change here would likely benefit the entire Ubuntu community as a whole. Many cloud providers allow users to save snapshots of their cloud instances - another area where this design issue conflicts with scripting.

Conflicts with the apt/dpkg locks weren't as common in the older Ubuntu server versions that used upstart. My team started to notice this more often after Ubuntu switched to systemd.

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