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The Ubuntu Power Users community is work on branding and logo for the team. If you are budding artist and would like to contribute, please our wiki page for more details.

The problem is many of us want more out of our Ubuntu experience than the base Ubuntu install can give us. We want to take the Ubuntu and tweak it and make it our own. A Power User is someone who likes to tweak the user interface, is not afraid of changing the default settings or install useful extensions. But a Power User doesn’t necessary need to know how to code or compile a package from source code. A Power User is just a user… with power [1].

So with the this call to arms, the Ubuntu Power User community was created. This group foundations are still being built, but we do have some goals for the next release cycle of Ubuntu.

1. Documentation of existing tools and tweak: This team could a central repository documentation of useful tools, tweaks, and configuration utilities for the desktop, kernel, and other parts of Ubuntu Linux. This can can help sort the safe and useful tools from tools and tweak that could cause unforeseen harm someone’s Ubuntu Linux install.

2. Provide tools: The long term would be getting some of the most useful tools and tweaks upsteamed into the Ubuntu default install. Unity quicklist are a good example of low hanging fruit that many power users use, but would still be useful in the Ubuntu default install. Also the Power User community could work developers of such great tools as Ubuntu Tweak, Gunity, and others to give them feedback on their projects and help make this tools more a part of the wider Ubuntu community with the goal creating a ultimate configuration tool or kitchen sink app for the more advanced users of Ubuntu.

If you are interested in joining this community, check out our Launchpad team (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-power-users), Wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerUsers), Mailing List (https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-power-users), and IRC channel (http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-power-users). We will soon start having regular IRC meetings to further define our goals and purpose in the Ubuntu community.

Citations
[1] Who is a Power User? – https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerUsers/

Here is what I have been working on for Ubuntu Forum recently. At a session at UDS this week, we discuss the forums and how to bring it up to date with the new Ubuntu branding. There will be some big changes upcoming in the forums.

1. The forums software will be upgraded to vBulletin 4.0x.
2. Designing a new forums theme following the new Ubuntu branding guidelines.
3. Looking to streamline the forums, making it a better user experience.

Hopefully this work will be finished during the current Ubuntu release cycle.

This Twitter post sums up all my feelings about the decision to make Unity the default desktop in Gnome in Ubuntu 11.04. Let see how Unity develops for the desktop before passing judgement.

@oreillymedia: #Ebook Deal of the Day: VMware Cookbook – Only $9.99. Use code DDVMC http://oreil.ly/9Uw59z

My laptop has a Intel Wireless WiFi 5100 half height card. I had a problem with it losing connection with a wireless access point using 802.11n. This problem is a known issue with the iwlagn driver, and the best workaround is to disable 802.11n on the card. To disable 802.11n on this card create/edit your /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf file
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf
And add the following to it.
options iwlagn 11n_disable=1 11n_disable50=1

I was also have trouble in the timing between the nvidia driver and GDM loading at boot on my laptop. LP #532436. I have to have cron relaunch GDM at boot for a rough workaround for this problem.

1. sudo vim /etc/crontab and add this line to the end:
@reboot root /root/gdmstart

2. Create the shell script to relaunch GDM
sudo vim /root/gdmstart

with this contents:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 6
/usr/sbin/service gdm start

3. Make script executable.
sudo chmod u+x /root/gdmstart

One other problem I had with this laptop with any version of Linux is not being able to burn CD/DVDs with Linux. The fix was to downgrade the firmware for the HLDS HLDS GS20N 9.5mm Slotload SATA DVD-RW drive to version A108.

What workarounds did you have to tweek to get Ubuntu working on your hardware? Post them here, and be sure to file a bug on your problem if you have not already.

Specs.

• Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E7500
• 8GB DDR3 SDRAM
• DVD±RW/CD-RW drive
• 1TB Serial ATA hard drive (7200 rpm)
• Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD
• 7.1-channel audio support.
• Built-in 19-in-1 digital media reader
• Dell 1525N Wireless-N mini card (802.11b/g/n)
• Built-in 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN

Everything on this computer works out of the box with Ubuntu. I thought the Dell 1525N wireless card was a Broadcom device and was planning a night of sacrificing chickens to the dark wireless gods to get it working under Linux. I was pleased that the card used the ath9k driver and works great in Ubuntu.

With 8GB of ram, I installed the amd64 version of Ubuntu Lucid RC, and I’m amazed how far the 64bit version has come since the last time I tried it. If you have delay switching over to 64 bit for PC with more than 3GB of memory, now is the time to switch. I found the user experience between using the 32bit vs 64bit nearly identical.

The only issue I had with this machine was that the installer ran very very slow, about 10 minutes for the first screen to appear. I’m looking to see if there is an existing bug that matches this problem, if not I will be running ubuntu-bug ubiquity tonight.

If you are looking for a desktop that works great with Ubuntu, I strongly recommend the Dell Inspiron 560.