February 29, 2008 5:32 AM PST
Your chance to feed the Ubuntu Brain(storm)
Ubuntu has launched a new site - Ubuntu Brainstorm - where anyone can submit and vote on ideas for the popular Linux distribution. It's a bit like Dell's Ideastorm (which, perhaps not coincidentally, led Dell to start offering Ubuntu systems for sale).
The difference here, however, is that it is the Ubuntu community that will take the feedback and build a better Ubuntu, rather than submitting ideas into a corporation which will weigh its quarterly objectives against the community's ideas. This is yet another way that Ubuntu continues to demonstrate its community credentials.
It's a way to give even non-developers like me a chance to make an imprint on Ubuntu.
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For my own part, I've got a few minor issues, but none that come anywhere near making the alternatives more desirable. Perhaps I'm just not into multimedia enough (or whatever else it may be) or maybe I just know enough to make it fit my needs without too much fussing but for the life of me I can't see how the current crop of desktop linux offerings doesn't work.
@ TimBowden: That's a valid point, but, I think differently. Firefox already gives options to install flash & java right away, and the media player does tell you to install codecs and points to the downloader (although that could be improved).
The graphical effects however do make up for the initial "wow!", and the full "work-ablity" (ie, word processor, browser, im client are all installed and ready to go) out of the box do compete for the 30 min impression rather well.