dustinkirkland

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821

3 years ago today, I posted this question to Ask HN, as I was boarding a flight from Heathrow to Houston. At the time, I was the VP of Product at Canonical, thinking about Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and what people really wanted in the next generation of Ubuntu. What followed was one of the most heavily commented threads on HackerNews, ever. Over the next week, I meticulously reviewed the comments and requests and published a blog post that grouped the requests into patterns.

I'm no longer with Canonical, though I still use Ubuntu desktop and server on a daily basis, and contribute occasionally as an Ubuntu Core Developer. It's pretty cool to look back at how much of that feedback found it's way into 18.04 LTS and now into 20.04 LTS!

On a related note, dear product managers...make sure you give your users a voice into the future of your products! We learned a lot from this experience. Thank you HackerNews ;-)

I'm almost certainly past the point in life where an MBA makes financial sense for me, my career, and my family. However, I'm a voracious reader and would love to absorb some of the best learnings you acquired in your B-school experience. What are the top books, texts, or research papers you read when you were in Business school? (And for proper context, I'd love to know which MBA program you attended, or if you're a non-MBA too). Thanks! @DustinKirkland

In last year's "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?", we noticed a common request for a "lighter, smaller, more minimal" Ubuntu image.

To date, we've shaved the Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS minimal images down by over 53%, since Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and trimmed nearly 100 packages and thousands of files -- currently sitting at 30MB compressed. We have 2.5 months left in the 18.04 LTS cycle. Can the HackerNews crowd help us find any more savings?

Feedback welcome in the HN comments below, or the Google Forms survey here:

- https://ubu.one/imgSurvey

More detailed post at:

- http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2018/02/rfc-ubuntu-1804-lts-minimal-images.html

On behalf of the Ubuntu team, @DustinKirkland VP Product, Canonical