Comments on: Best Ubuntu Innovations of 2008

By: marindafork

marindafork — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:49:33 +0000

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By: andreas

andreas — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:47:52 +0000

hi christopher,
can’t agree on the wireless thing.
i have much trouble with the new iwl3945 driver,
so i have to use the old ipw3945
sad because i love ubuntu and gnu/linux

best regards

andreas

By: Christopher Tozzi

Christopher Tozzi — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:55:04 +0000

Steve: some quick googling suggests that your card was supported by the bcm43xx driver (which is deprecated) since 2007, which implies that it should now work using b43. I’d definitely encourage you to look around ubuntuforums.org for instructions on making your card work, or start a new thread if you can’t find any.

Although Broadcom cards were traditionally very problematic in Linux, the situation has improved drastically over the last year. And of course, there’s always ndiswrapper if b43 won’t work.

By: Steve Rush

Steve Rush — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:33:24 +0000

I still haven’t got wifi sorted out. I have an old Compaq R3010US with a Broadcom –May their skivvy shorts be starched with epoxy glue!– 4309 wifi card, and every major Ubuntu version has brought a fresh hassle with ndiswrapper. In all of the previous ones, I got back to my wireless LAN within a day or two. Not so in 8.10. None of my old incantations works. I even tried the b43/fwcutter route, though that never worked for me. Eventually, someone will release a fix, or maybe I will find a Linux-compatible wifi card. Until then, this laptop is tied to my router with a cable.

By: Jack Fuller

Jack Fuller — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:17:47 +0000

One problem with 8.10, based on a newer kernel, is the inability [or great difficulty] to get webcams to work. There are many posts in the Ubuntu forums about this. Because of that, Skype can’t be used to make video calls. Supposedly it worked OK in 8.04. Again, while not necessarily a Canonical problem, items like this are deal-killers for Linux use by “average” [aka Windows] users, because these aren’t issues with Windows.

By: Vadi

Vadi — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:42:38 +0000

I think my earlier comment on here got moderated away because of two links.

By: aikiwolfie

aikiwolfie — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:41:47 +0000

I think Canonical should realise it’s core market at the moment are home users and start producing or sponsoring or doing something to get applications onto the desktop instead of just focusing on the OS.

Yes we have a web browser and an office suite and e-mail clients. But we also need things like a decent suit of so called “life style applications”. Linux doesn’t have a decent easy to use video editing application. Similarly photo editing? Should we use the Gimp? That’s a bit of a learning curve.

What about games and entertainment? Nexiuz is great but I want more than one game or one type of game. I want to be playing something that isn’t half finished and can compete with the best of what’s available elsewhere. Have you watched a blu-ray movie on a Linux box yet?

Canonical don’t have to write the applications. But they do need to promote their platform to developers. An OS without applications is pointless.

Canonical wants to play in Red-Hats and Novells back yard. But they aren’t making they headway they should be in that arena. They do have a huge loyal following on the desktop though.

The problem with X seems to affect mostly people with ATI cards or people with SLI setups.

By: Christopher Tozzi

Christopher Tozzi — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:41:22 +0000

aikiwolfie: just curious what you mean by ‘consumer targeted applications’. Do you think Canonical should become more directly involved in the development of stuff like OpenOffice?

As for the issues with video, I’ve heard of lots of people having problems with the new X situation, although I’ve had none myself (maybe because I use only Intel video cards, which have open-source drivers, and have no dual-monitors to deal with). But I think it’s good that X has finally moved away from the xorg.conf file, even if it’s led to new problems. You should still be able to use xorg.conf if necessary, but it’s nice not to have to deal with it if you’re lucky enough to have X auto-detect your settings properly.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:14:47 +0000

I agree on the wireless improvements. Having a laptop with a Broadcom card I have always struggled with wireless, but with the new driver and also with Network Manager, well actually managing my networks it is bliss without having to install WICD. Have to say I’m in the boat with others about video. There have been some improvements, but dual monitor set up really shouldn’t take days, but hey its getting better all the time.

By: aikiwolfie

aikiwolfie — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:00:33 +0000

The Xorg project changed the way the X server works. But it’s not hard to fix. If you have an SLI set up it doesn’t just pick one as the default. You need to tell it which one to use.

The ignoring of the config file is another Xorg project change. They want to dump the config file completely.

As for innovation. Most users won’t have even noticed the stuff that was listed. The innovations I wanted to see, like consumer targeted applications, didn’t arrive. Canonical seem to be firmly focused on delivering the OS and basic applications only. They need to stop trying to be Red Hat and realise their market is with consumers. That would be a genuine innovation in the Linux world.