What are the ultimate features of Vista that Ubuntu needs?

[Sunnz]

I understand why people would like better drivers... I cannot not to agree, even.

However it is unfair to compare ubuntu on vista on this from a technological point of view: hardware vendors develop their drivers for windows, knowing the tech specs and feeling compelled to have a working driver for windows prior to release their products. The majority of the drivers developed for Linux are the fruit of reverse engineering and lots of trial-and-error practice.

IMHO, better drivers should come not from more resources poured in reverse-engineering, but in more resources poured in convincing hardware vendors to develop drivers for GNU/Linux as well...

Yes I agree and it is very frustrating, Linux has all the developers who are competent enough to write drivers yet the vendors themselves aren't trying to work well with developers at all!!!

They (the vendor) are simply not receiving enough pressures.

The Linux community should help by keep asking vendors for drivers or documentation to drivers, developers alone are not enough.

[proalan]

blue screen

[Sunnz]

blue screen

Huh?

You mean BSOD?

You can find that in xscreensaver.

[allforcarrie]

the ability to use USB devices as RAM.

[Sunnz]

the ability to use USB devices as RAM.

I suppose on Linux you could make a swap file on an USB device as well?

Not sure if that's such a great idea though... flash device are fast but have only a certain number of writes.

[Quikee]

I suppose on Linux you could make a swap file on an USB device as well?

You could put swap file on a USB way before Vista. But ReadyBoost in Vista is not only "swap on a USB stick" but some sort of preload and swap combination. Anyway - the boost is not as high as someone might expect.

Not sure if that's such a great idea though... flash device are fast but have only a certain number of writes.

Flash devices do not have as high transfer rates as do hard drives, but have low latency at reading, but then again, not at writing. Number of writes should not be a problem - ~1M writes is not so little anyway.

[Sunnz]

I see, thanks for telling!!

However, this ReadyBoost thing seems like a thing MS invented to help out Vista's resource hog, so that people 'feel' that is doesn't hog as much as it suppose to be...

And it is suppose to help out the resource hogging of Vista itself, then people are going to fire up photoshop and 3d max and stuff, or start WOW on high setting... it would "flashing" out more than your average system wouldn't it?

[noenter1]

One thing linux needs is streaming audio/video suporrt for internet browsers(FF). The only way I have ever been able to view streaming video on sites such as youtube was to install IE5.5/6.

EDIT: Also java seems to be incomplete for FF.

[mac.ryan]

One thing linux needs is streaming audio/video suporrt for internet browsers(FF). The only way I have ever been able to view streaming video on sites such as youtube was to install IE5.5/6.

It must be an issue with your installation... I had 5 machines running under ubuntu (and saw many more) and all of those had not an issue with streaming video within FF.

[motin]

One thing linux needs is streaming audio/video suporrt for internet browsers(FF). The only way I have ever been able to view streaming video on sites such as youtube was to install IE5.5/6.

EDIT: Also java seems to be incomplete for FF.

I develop the site http://www.videoboom.se and http://www.videoboom.com on a Ubuntu machine and Flash 7 & 9 works well in FF for streaming audio and video. Check your installation. Maybe try install the newer Flash 9 for Linux.