Ubuntu takes a page from Dell’s playbook

A fantastic thing Dell does for it’s customers is its Brainstorm site where they can tell the company what they’d love to see from the company. Comments on Dell’s Brainstorm site were responsible for our finally being able to get a Dell computer with Linux, specifically Ubuntu Linux, preinstalled.

Last week Ubuntu took the wraps off their new brainstorm.ubuntu.com site, in hope that it will be an even better way to find out what we users want than the Launchpad is.

Launchpad is the Ubuntu bug reporting product, like Mozilla has their Bugzilla that has been used by non-Mozilla companies. People are able to use Lunchpad to report problems and bugs with software within the distro, but for requesting a new feature it doesn’t work as well.You can not only look to see what others are suggesting, but even let the devs know if you’d like to see it included in future versions of Ubuntu. Some of the most popular ideas today as reported by the site include making it easier to boot into Ubuntu after Windows has been installed, having more themes available out of the box than just the default brown and orange theme, and creating a “works with Ubuntu” logo that hardware manufacturers can use.