I'm in!

[Victory]

I got accepted in the Google Summer Of Code :) which means that this is probably my best accomplishment in my short life, I can't describe how I feel I think this is real happiness!

I'll be working on the Git# implementation, a very hard project but I really like it. Thanks Mono Project for putting their trust on me.

What is Ubuntu still missing

Ubuntu is just days ahead(test the RC: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/), I have been using it for about 2 months now, and its really hard to tell "What is Ubuntu missing". So I'll try to list some of the "missing features" and|or "improvements".

• Updates and integration with proprietary drivers: For me there's no need of having software like Envy, Ubuntu should update this already-released-drivers, just like Windows(via notification) and OSX do.
• Improve hardware support: This is like a dog following its tail, but I think Ubuntu will potentially do better.
• Improve compiz support: OpenSuSE does this thing very good, Ubuntu should not allow people even try to activate compiz if their video card is not in the database. The im-trying-but-no-workee is not cool.
• A nice One-click-install: no comment, is very needed and we already have the architecture to do it.
• Make some smart software-to-be-included-by-default decisions: We want Banshee, Beagle, Monsoon, Cheese, Elisa and Inkscape.
• Install ndiswrapper by default: You know there is a wireless problem and in lots of cases can be resolved installing ndiswrapper, well INCLUDE THE THING BY DEFAULT THEN :)
• Improvements in Pidgin: Add video-conference IM, is the future.
• Improve system configurations via a GUI: Not everything should be configurable by a GUI, but things like Samba, Grub, drivers and partitions should be fully configurable using a GUI.
• Include a pulse audio based volume control: In other words just include the one on Fedora and make it better.
• Make more metapackages: mono-development, rails-development, java-development, django-development, gamers-stack, officeusers-stack, web2.0-stack etc.

If all of these features or improvements are included I'll be very happy :)

Command history meme

igor@igorlaptop:~$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
242 git
101 ls
28 cd
24 vi
22 gitk
16 gedit
15 rm
11 man
10 tree
6 e
igor@igorlaptop:~$

Pretty cool commands... I type ls more than I need to though.