We reported earlier on a blog post entitled "Ubuntu Report Card (2009)" where the author detailed how they felt the Ubuntu experience had improved over the years. In a follow-up series of articles looking at the future, Tanner Helland has written 10 different broadly-scoped feature requests that [he] 'and many others would like to see by the time Ubuntu 10.10 rolls around'.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:2007-08-16
1) Works fine on my laptop (after some fiddling)
2) Worked out of the box for me
3) I got ~6 hrs of battery life without tweaking anything from my Acer Timeline 5810T (given, it's not ideal, but it's not bad)
4) You have the right idea, but I rather had Linux dump ALSA and Pulse alltogether for OSS4, since all the other unices use OSS and it's a de-facto standard. And, OSS doesn't need something like pulse since it does channel mixing in the drivers. And, on top of that, it does recognize surround sound stacks better.
Member since:2005-10-18
Lucky you with the first three points. My wish is that they worked more or less everywhere. I have about an hour of battery life with Jaunty, while not being able to dim the screen (unless I use nv - but then I cannot dim as much as I would like) or turn off WiFi. On my tamed Vista (dual-boot) installation, however, I have about 3 hours of battery life.
Dunno about OSS4, haven't tried that. My understanding is that this isn't going to happen anyway, so it makes sense to focus on integrating what we have and not enact another drastic change.
Member since:2009-08-26
Member since:2009-05-20
2) Make laptop WiFi on/off key work.
3) Make laptop battery life not suck.
4) Organize the efforts to seamlessly integrate Pulseaudio and Jack for reasonable coordinated behavior in pro- and desktop audio scenarios.
1) WorksForSome(tm), but in your case it may be that YouDontNeedThat(tm)
2) WorksForSome(tm), but in your case it may be that YouDontNeedThat(tm)
3) WorksForSome(tm), but in your case it may be that YouDontNeedThat(tm)
4) YouDontNeedThat(tm) but it may be JustAroundTheCorner(tm)
Member since:
2005-10-18
1) Make laptop LCD brightness keys work.
2) Make laptop WiFi on/off key work.
3) Make laptop battery life not suck.
4) Organize the efforts to seamlessly integrate Pulseaudio and Jack for reasonable coordinated behavior in pro- and desktop audio scenarios.