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Comment on Day 3 – 10 Days of Ubuntu 10.10 Feature Requests by Ronnie

Ronnie — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:15:29 +0000

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ADD voice/video chat SUPPORT BEFORE IMPROVING USELESS INTERFACE(U CAN’T GIVE IT HI PRIORITY, ISN’T IT?). how long we use Windows only for this purpose ?

Comment on The Only Feature Ubuntu 10.04 Needs by luke

luke — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:58:03 +0000

That’s the problem with the community project aspect. None of them want to do that type of work, as making new things is more exciting and glorifying to the average person.

Comment on The Only Feature Ubuntu 10.04 Needs by luke

luke — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:55:14 +0000

And don’t implement the Gnome sidebar/dashboard/whatever-the-heck-it-is. It looks too difficult for the average user, and minimizes and maximizes the desktop too much for my tastes.

Comment on The Only Feature Ubuntu 10.04 Needs by luke

luke — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:52:53 +0000

Well, someone’s not happy with linux.

(cuddley voice)
Aww, did it tell you your Windows installation is a hog? Uses far too much of your precious resources? I’m sorry, honey, but let’s just face the facts.

(real voice) Stability issues? Not for me, but for stupid OpenOffice.org I ended up with kOffice, Abiword, and Gnumeric as candidates once I realized that the problem was not Ubuntu, but my dreaded office suite. Sun, why can’t you pull it together and make a single .deb download?

Comment on Music: A Taste of What’s to Come by Kroc Camen

Kroc Camen — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:23:48 +0000

Sounding much more refined, definitely an improvement :) The piano work is particularly notable. I’m hoping I’ll be able to find some practical use for your music in some project of mine at some point.

Comment on The Only Feature Ubuntu 10.04 Needs by Ankit

Ankit — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:44:15 +0000

That’s realyy an interesting idea! and i’d love to see that implemented in 10.04, but as u know, most of the laptop manufacturers use diferent hwares( grafic cards, sound cards, modems etc.) and so all these HW drivers should be available there for users..

there is also another major problem with ubuntu, whenever u install the drivers for ATI or NVIDIA graphics card, it crashes on the next restart, so i’d love to see any solution, if u have that!

Comment on Yes, I Am Still Alive by Clint V Franklin

Clint V Franklin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:04:22 +0000

Howdy Tanner! It really has been a while. I was starting to wonder if I’d done run you off the Internet. :P

Comment on Day 9 – 10 Days of Ubuntu 10.10 Feature Requests by Seaumas

Seaumas — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:46:48 +0000

Windows 7 is so full of things wrong with it that its nasty. Surely its being pushed like stomped on crack, and its not the worst Windows OS I’ve ever seen (remember Me? or Vista?) I’m still using XP Pro and quite a few of us are. If windows 7 isn’t an advertisement for buying a Mac I don’t know what it. I’m a stone Ubuntu maniac, but in some ways its got a little to do to meet the cleanliness and completeness of an Apple computer. Perhaps Ubuntu 10.04 will go a long way towards that goal. And, for goodness sake, who says you have to put our a new version every 6 mos?

Comment on Day 9 – 10 Days of Ubuntu 10.10 Feature Requests by Seaumas

Seaumas — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:35:21 +0000

O Boy. I heard that one before. It came from IBM and its why they refused to release a desktop. Similarly, when desktops did come out, they would not budge from their clunky “mainframe on a desktop” AT (5150). And everyone seemed to have the IBM mentality until Compaq and Radio Shack Shack walked in the door. Shuttlesworth is full blown from the brow of the gods, but I happen to remember some mighty smart guys from the 1960s and ’70s and they were wrong. So wrong their companies folded like crushed oragami art. Linux does not have to build a desktop. It can work with another company to build that kludge according to spec and I bet it will work better than all the rest. HP, Dell, Hitachi, Apple and Sun won’t be around forever in their present forms. This world used to be full of the type of visionaries that would let folks tell them they could not do something. Today, unfortunately, we have a world society that waits for someone else to do it, or complains that someone has not or cannot. That’s why I’m looking at a little red laptop with a Linux keyboard that will be running Ubuntu 25 (with continual fix and update on an hourly basis). Price?
What’s in yer pocket, Laddie?

Comment on The Only Feature Ubuntu 10.04 Needs by Seaumas

Seaumas — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:52:44 +0000

Here’s how I see a problem or two solved. No one seems to have patience anymore. (no offense meant. Just observations from an old man). Most folks want an “all or nothing package” (again—). How about a new version every 9mos. with update packages flashed to users for download to the OS. Yes, this would certainly mean at least some KDE, but we’re using it now for driver downloads, especially from ALSA. This would keep things up-to-date, maybe even ahead of the curve. Software makers in other places do this. Why not Ubuntu? New hardware and software gets released all the time and they tend to favor MS and Apple. But if Intel is hip to the situation as much as some of the office equipment makers (Canon, Epson, HP), it should not be a neck breaker to for the Ubuntu community to keep up.
I’d like to add something else. As much as I adore Richard Stallman and FSF, I agree with Mark Adreesen that this is a commercial thing, regardless of what Steve “Ballmers!” of MS says Linux being “communist” and “evil”.
Ubuntu is the server king right now, but the community should give a little bit- of more than its love. Sure, our brothers and sisters who are garbage picking poor should get this distro gratis, but I just think its fair we do something. do you know a charity called “Ubuntu for All” or something like that. I don’t. I’m on Social Security and I can buy from Canonical. I hope some of you do, too. Hey, want to start a software foundation? I’m there. Thanks for letting me chatter.