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It also was fixed in a way that typified open source development too, by a user not involved with the project. If it weren't for this user, known as "Head Geek" (a nom de gurre that belongs on /. ;-) ), the project wouldn't have gone gold. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee/+question/35194

Yes, some bugs do go unfixed (and basically remain open) forever. However my experience is that well described bugs are fixed more often than not. Here's a list of bugs in Ubuntu reported by me (Sitsofe Wheeler). Many of these bugs have been fixed (I've reported bugs elsewhere too, that was just a handy example).

It is worth noting that there are different types of bugs. Some are design decision suggestions ("you should move this to the left because it adheres to this style guide"). Some are requests for improvements ("You should implement this feature"). What happens with these styles of bugs varies from project to project and I can well believe that they may not be fixed (but they may well be resolved by closing them).

Next up, you could load it up with, say, Ubuntu Netbook Remix (I'm guessing that would be a bit choppy as the XO-1 doesn't have OpenGL acceleration), or Ubuntu Mobile Edition, and you have a nice mini interface that's perfect for its small screen.

Well, the XO-1 is already capable of running Ubuntu with a GNOME desktop.

Next up, you could load it up with, say, Ubuntu Netbook Remix (I'm guessing that would be a bit choppy as the XO-1 doesn't have OpenGL acceleration), or Ubuntu Mobile Edition, and you have a nice mini interface that's perfect for its small screen.

Here's the link to the PPA: https://launchpad.net/~netbook-remix-team/+archive

Just add it to your sources and install the packages.

Installing updates stopped my ubuntu from booting!

Oh my god

There isn't much on the project's website: here

...but they are working on it.

No, I removed that a while ago.

There seems to be a fair few "firefox crashed with SIGSEGV in __kernel_vsyscall()" on the Firefox 3 Launchpad page".

However most of them seem to end up being marked incomplete or invalid because the traces don't seem to be any good. I've subscribed to a few and will see if they go anywhere.

Looks like this bug, which points to this one.

Do you have a /usr/lib/libflashsupport.so on your system? If so, try renaming it. I checked my machine, and I don't have that library...

Looks like this bug, which points to this one.

Do you have a /usr/lib/libflashsupport.so on your system? If so, try renaming it. I checked my machine, and I don't have that library...

The blacklist is active by default, at least on Ubuntu. Add a blacklisted key to an authorized_keys file and try to log in using it. auth.log on the server will have a line like the following:

May 15 08:47:40 ns1 sshd[2989]: Public key 27:26:b8:52:d2:8e:7a:18:3f:8e:81:87:6b:7e:87:e9 blacklisted (see ssh-vulnkey(1))

and the client will read Permission denied (publickey).

Keys do need to be regenerated, but a patched system is not vulnerable to SSH key guessing, no matter what the authorized_hosts file contains. Bad keys will simply stop working. Any SSH remote-login vulnerability is fixed as soon as you dist-upgrade your packages, installing openssh-blacklist.

(Okay, certain keys which have options on them weren't detected by the first version of the ssh-vulnkey tool, but now they are.)

This will not happen until the Linux Kernel has native support for an install mechanism where by I can double click on a single file and have it install a whole program including notifying and automatically installing programs it is dependent upon.

Yeah, right. I had so many problems with FF3b5 in Hardy Heron that after a fortnight I chucked out the whole operating system and moved to FreeBSD. I wonder how many people have had problems with the Adobe flash plugin in Hardy and how's it working in F9.

Yes, bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/230003/

Yeah and we need some thing like "template sandboxes" on top of something like AppArmor.

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2007-09/msg02994.html

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/156693

OK bothered to relook it up, could be this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/188226

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/177713

OK bothered to relook it up, could be this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/188226

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/177713

I am running 8.04 since the beta releases - no issues apart from the (now fixed) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215728. Please send out bug reports - most times I reported one, I have gotten a useful response - workaround, fix etc.

Feel free to file a bug: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug

I suppose it depends how reasonably you could actually fix the incorrect behavior, or whether it makes more sense to document it explicitly and move on. For example, I might consider it a bug that I can't easily type an apostrophe as part of a contraction in a single-quoted string, but I'm fairly sure I'm happier with the explicit, simple, and predictable behavior than any hack which would allow the compiler to always detect when a ' was meant to be quoting a string, or to be an apostrophe in a string.

Take, for example, Ubuntu's Bug #1 -- certainly undesirable behavior, but really not trivial to fix. Undocumented behavior can always at least be easily fixed by documenting it.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/205990

does the fix in this bug reports description help your usplash issue?

Xen networking is completely broken in Hardy Heron. Joy ;)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/218126

The mirror list on ubuntu.com is out-of-date; some are down. Use the mirrors listed at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+cdmirrors -- they're checked hourly.

This bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/188226 causes synergy to sputter along unless its started under sudo or you recompiled your kernel with a different scheduler enabled.

Um...you could have done so a month and a half ago, as long as you're keeping up with updates. The recompiled .deb was put in gutsy-updates on March 5th...Patch Verified

I am very happy that there has been another LTS release (and on my birthday)! I've been running the beta and it has been very stable other than than the firefox alpha (which seems to work fine on my debian lenny box).

I am dissapointed that abiword 2.6 didn't make the cut, though. It is a great release, however the timing of things didn't work out. You can get some context on what happened at one of the developer's blog and the bug report. Seems there was a little tension involved. Also, here are the release notes for Abiword.

Being an LTS release, I wonder if they can get it backported? I don't think that usually happens with that drastic of an upgrade - is it just security updates that get backported? However, the Abiword team will not be supporting 2.4.x for the next 3 years so I hope that something along those lines is possible.

Oh well, off to compiling it myself. :)

What an excellent decision it was to release with this bug not being addressed

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/188226

Sweet, maybe now I can adjust my volume.

Thats why I got the beta a week ago ;) I was thinking ahead to this very day. Course when somethings didn't work right I was never sure if it was the code or if it was the OS. Speaking of if you get a java window that doesn't seem to display anything there is a bug with xgl. bug 48404

With ubuntu and the top and bottom panels and then a window's title bar that is a large amount of your screen real estate taken up! Three big horizontal stripes which are always present. Too much for me. I suppose I could have them on auto-hide.

I have switched to AWN so minimized windows are represented by their icon instead of some text with the window title just like in mac os.

It works well enough and looks fine apart from the system tray which isn't transparent but this ain't a fashion show.

I'm also trying to address it and the social problems that exacerbate it with discussion with users, like you for example. Unless vocal users are aware of real usability issues and willing to admit those problems, it does more to dissuade people from using Linux on the desktop than the problems themselves in many cases.

The vast majority of people on discussion boards like Slashdot have absolutely no influence on the development of any OS distribution. Posts that say "Linux isn't ready for mainstream users / the desktop" basically come across as trolls and/or astroturfing.

If you want to actually accomplish something useful when it comes to usability on Linux, the most effective thing that you can do is submit Ubuntu blueprints for the next release - right now is the perfect time to actually get your suggestions into 8.10 by submitting one or more blueprints (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/).

Major difference? Well I can't enumerate them, but I can generalize things you'll see in Fedora compared to Ubuntu

• Continued work on PulseAudio

The thing that is really bugging me is a silly problem with the calculator.

If you type in a sum long enough to make scrollbars appear on the "screen" then when you hit enter the result isn't visible, you just get a blank "screen" rather than an answer.

It's unnerving that such a simple tool has such a visible problem (and has had it for several months).

You can try PyRoom, a clone of WriteRoom. Written in, you guessed it, Python. It is GPL too, unlike WriteRoom.

Here is the link : http://pyroom.org/
But you really want to get it from launchpad : https://launchpad.net/pyroom

Aren't you aware of the fact that open source is very version-shy, in general? And that a quality of an open source application is not correlated with its version number? I thought this was Slashdot where such things need not be explained.

That's their problem, not mine. If I see "0.46" in front of something, I think "buggy POS with no features." (1.0 also makes me think "buggy POS" with the difference that at least 1.0 has all the features implemented.) The version number system is quite well-established, if the Inkscape coders don't want to use it, then they can do that-- but they also can't complain when normal people like myself look at the version number and think "buggy POS."

Anything involving text? Of course vector, using GIMP/Photoshop for text is self-inflicted torture.

Photoshop stores text as vectors. (Photoshop also has enough vector features to do most, if not all, of the other items on your list-- perhaps a bit more awkwardly, but they can be done.) Doing it in GIMP, yes, is self-inflicted torture, but then again, so is using GIMP at all.

And this is sad. I know Photoshop came first and deeply entrenched itself into the brains of users. But come on people, it's time to give it a second thought. It's 21st century and vector editors have progressed far, far beyond what was available in the 90s.

So has Photoshop. It has a ton of vector features, you seem entirely ignorant of. I'm not saying that Photoshop is the end-all be-all of vector art, obviously Adobe wouldn't snipe sales from their own Illustrator, but it's not nearly as dire as you make it out to be.

It's curious that for your pick, you chose one of the things that is actually common to both Inkscape and GIMP - the file dialog provided by the GTK library! Of course Inkscape does not maliciously missort your files, it's just the default with the GTK version you were using. And I have just searched even deleted and closed bug reports and could not find yours. So, if it's still not fixed in 0.46, please go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape and report it.

Yes, Inkscape doesn't give crap about my bug and simply deletes it. (No doubt without fixing it first.) And it's my job to re-submit the bug? Screw that. What reason do I have to believe it would get fixed the second time? If they don't want my input, if they're just going to delete it without comment, they shouldn't ask for bug reports in the first place.

Whether or not you can find it, it was in there. I know, because I still have the URL it was located at on the craptactular SourceForge.net: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1609779&group_id=93438 It says "Artifact: This Artifact Has Been Made Private. Only Group Members Can View Private ArtifactTypes" which I assume is a retarded SourceForge code for "this bug has been deleted."

From the email, I gather the buck was passed to the "GTK layer" and not by Inkscape itself. I guess it's ok to delete bugs when you pass the buck to some other open source project that also won't bother to fix it. Oh look, there's the link: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391461 "Unconfirmed!"

For the record, I can't test whether it's fixed or not because I don't have a Mac anymore. (At least, not one I'm willing to install X11 on.)

P.S. To any open source developers reading this: If you want bug submissions, please do not use SourceForge.net. It would be hard to find worse bug tracking software.

> If Inkscape is so good, it's version number should at least be 1.0

Aren't you aware of the fact that open source is very version-shy, in general? And that a quality of an open source application is not correlated with its version number? I thought this was Slashdot where such things need not be explained.

> Inkscape is a better choice for graphic tasks that involve vectors.

Which is the clear majority of all graphic tasks, overall. Draw something? Best done in vector, with full freedom and editability. Compose something out of existing stock art? Pure vector. Anything involving text? Of course vector, using GIMP/Photoshop for text is self-inflicted torture. Banners, diagrams, cartoons, maps, buttons? Vector, vector, vector...

What remains to bitmap editors? Well, editing photos, naturally. Retouching, color correction, RAW work. Also, naturalistic drawing emulating watercolor, oil etc (but this is not the domain of GIMP or Photoshop either, try ArtRage). That's about all. Even things like shadows, bevels, and texturizing can now be done in Inkscape using filters.

> It's more likely they just use bitmap tools more than they use vector tools.

And this is sad. I know Photoshop came first and deeply entrenched itself into the brains of users. But come on people, it's time to give it a second thought. It's 21st century and vector editors have progressed far, far beyond what was available in the 90s.

> Last time I used Inkscape, on X11 on Macintosh, it wasn't even capable of sorting the File->Open dialog in alphabetical order.

It's curious that for your pick, you chose one of the things that is actually common to both Inkscape and GIMP - the file dialog provided by the GTK library! Of course Inkscape does not maliciously missort your files, it's just the default with the GTK version you were using. And I have just searched even deleted and closed bug reports and could not find yours. So, if it's still not fixed in 0.46, please go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape and report it.

"Linux and Unix had a great approach from their beginnings"

Great? What's so great about their approach in their beginnings? Sorry, I expect far better than the early crappy Linux/Unix approach. How many decades have passed already?

When Joe Average runs a downloaded app why should it have full access to Joe's documents and email?

Why should Joe Average have to solve a version of the halting problem without being able to read the program's source code? "Is this program going to halt when I run it" is similar to "Is this program going to hurt me badly when I run it". The last I checked, the halting problem is still unsolvable.

I hope the future Linux/Unix approach would involve better sandboxing, in a way most users can manage, understand and most importantly, be happy with.

My proposal is:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2007-09/msg02994.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/156693

Answers to your questions:

1) There is a file called 'cmd.exe' on your system

2) Clean up your machine with option A or option B. Be sure to click on the 'whole disk' option or some infected part may remain.

SNI (Server Name Indication) support is available, though not out-of-the-box that I'm aware of. See this test site. Sadly, enabling TLSEXT in openssl (required for SNI) seems to require bumping the soname of the library, which nobody wants to do. Hence, the specs remain unimplemented for the next Ubuntu release, later this month. (It's an LTS release, which makes this especially infuriating.)

And you can't use it on any public-facing websites that you care about people going to. It's unsupported in IE6 and even on IE7 unless you're using Vista. (Though Firefox 2 and later work fine.) Because of the enormous clusterfuck that is Vista, most people seem content to stick with XP. So unless you're restricting your site to a select cadre of friends who use browsers that don't suck, SNI is dead in the water for at least a few more years.

1. what were the grammar mistakes I did? (english is not my first language) I really don't understand why the attacks, if I am only trying to help.
2. I used XP as an example. hdparm/sdparm also works on Linux, and I'm sure MacOSX has something like that also.
3. That one is a tough one to believe; have your friend tried to disable APM in the BIOS? This says it could be that.

trying to force them off XP is going to represent an opportunity for someone else

We noticed

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/01/01/mac-os-x-market-share-sets-new-record-at-the-end-of-2007
http://gizmodo.com/340117/mac-os-x-market-share-at-731-and-rising
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 The #1 bug is being worked on as we speak.
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3719096_1
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080104-evaluating-prospects-for-linux-growth-in-2008.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071205-microsoft-feeling-heat-from-linux-in-budget-flash-pc-market.html

For me, I am enjoying Ubuntu Studio.

Like the OP, I'm a prospective college student looking for FOSS scholarships. The difference is that I've already released my code, see http://wubi-installer.org/ (collaborative effort, 500,000+ downloads), and http://lubi.sourceforge.net/ (individual effort, 100,000+ downloads). As for revision control, see http://code.launchpad.net/~gezakovacs/ (mostly shellscript+NSIS, but I've recently begun using Qt4 and C++).

So back on topic, what are the best sources for FOSS scholarships?