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Ubuntu Dev Summit Lays Out Plans For Hardy Heron
Opurt writes "On the first day of the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Boston this week, a roundtable session focused on the vision for the upcoming Hardy Heron Ubuntu release. Unlike Gutsy Gibbon, which brought a handful of experimental features along with some new functionality, the focus with Heron will be on robustness as it will be supported on the desktop for 3 years. 'The Compiz window manager, which adds sophisticated visual effects to the Ubuntu user interface, will be a big target for usability improvements. Keyboard bindings and session management were noted as two areas where Compiz still needs some work.' PolicyKit and Tracker will also be significantly tweaked, while Heron is also likely to see a complete visual refresh."
I'm quite surprised... someone in the Linux world finally gets it! I gave up Linux for OS X a long time ago, but it would be nice to see some flavour of Linux adopt a sensible, user-friendly way of installing software.
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I stopped reading the notes when they mentioned having a wood texture (to combat vista's glass and osx's metal) could be cool... I think i might wait a few more years before trying a linux distro.