Comments on: What’s your “wow” Ubuntu feature ? or video ?

By: magicfab

magicfab — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:47:18 +0000

mpt, thanks, I didn’t know the specific dates and that will help.

Regarding Desktop effects I believe 8.04 was the first version we had a good settings interface and Compiz (as opposed to Beryl + etc. before) in a nice package. I’ll take a look a bit deeper there too.

I expect many questions during the week so our focuse may change as we go.

By: mpt

mpt — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:54:35 +0000

If youre comparing 8.04 with previous versions, remember that Launchpad integration was introduced in Ubuntu 5.10, not 8.04.
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/launchpad-integration/+publishinghistory

And Desktop Effects was introduced in Ubuntu 7.04, not 8.04.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/7.04Tour#head-72e463e7c61a66c61b567f361d2ad3fe38af39f8

By: Fabian Rodriguez

Fabian Rodriguez — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:56:48 +0000

Sorry I wasn’t clear, but yes, the intent is to show improvements or new things in 8.04 compared to previous versions. Begin first or different at implementing some of them is also part of the demos, and we have some other ideas – I’ll share them as the week unfolds.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:26:00 +0000

Apart from Wubi and Launchpad (and they are rather limited in scope. Launchpad integration is a non-issue if you can’t/don’t want to contribute, wubi is for installation only), those features are exclusive to Ubuntu how?

Maybe I misunderstood, but if you are trying to demo why Ubuntu is a better distro than say Fedora or Suse then you should demo what is unique about Ubuntu. Not things you can get in any of the big distros (maybe not implemented in the same way but there).

If you want to showcase how Hardy is better than Gutsy though, your list is good. Although I would really push the community aspect.

By: LaserJock

LaserJock — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:12:07 +0000

For me there are two big factors:
1) my hardware all works out-of-the-box when I use Ubuntu
2) the community is awesome

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:51:37 +0000

Well.. everything gets broken. But Wubi is very revolutionary, definitely something that should be touted

By: Ian MacGregor

Ian MacGregor — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:46:28 +0000

I’d have to say my “wow” feature is that I’ve installed Ubuntu on a few machines and nothing else is required, it just works without tons of works/tweaks. I haven’t found many Linux distros that can do that.

By: Horatio

Horatio — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:23:57 +0000

Wubi gets broken for a lot of people with regular updates. Probably don’t want to demo that…

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/236307

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:09:20 +0000

Oh no, I didn’t mean that I had issues with them – I just don’t consider them as something that should be touted.

By: magicfab

magicfab — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:37:43 +0000

@Christoffer: Workspaces are common to most distributions, so it’s something I won’t focus on – no matter how badly i want to rotate cubes around!

We hope to make the point about the great community, in fact this post is part of that bit.

@Vadim, “Add/Remove..”, yes, thanks. Duh! about your issues, post on the forums and I’ll gladly try & help you. Feel free to put URLs here or by email/IM, I’ll remove the comment later.