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Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the make-the-bad-man-stop dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention that Mark Shuttleworth has announced the next release in the horribly alliterative Ubuntu family, "Karmic Koala." The new version hopes to include a newer, shinier, faster startup, better small screen support, a spruced-up desktop look (no more brown), and many minor tweaks and updates. "A newborn Koala spends about six months in the family before it heads off into the wild alone. Sounds about perfect for an Ubuntu release plan! I'm looking forward to seeing many of you in Barcelona, and before that, at a Jaunty release party. Till then, cheers."

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  1. Re:Another one! by iced_773 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    kola...isn't that a KDE program? Then again, shouldn't this whole release be KDE-only? I mean, it's all K's...

  2. Re:Meanwhile Linux Continues To Be A Trainwreck by MediaStreams · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The text alignment and kerning problems are something I really can't understand. Every time I do my yearly 'let's give Linux a try again' it is depressing to see the same horrible font choices, text that is never properly aligned in text boxes, and kerning problems.

    It's like trying to put out a newspaper or magazine that doesn't have any real professional page layout people working on it. It is so jarring to read that it really doesn't matter what the actual content is.

  3. Re:Meanwhile Linux Continues To Be A Trainwreck by dotancohen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Please, file bugs with specific examples. You are probably right: the people of that particular profession are not on the dev team and the devs that are working on Ubuntu probably don't even _know_ what they are doing wrong. Better yet, file it at Redhat or Novell, where the cashflow to hire the right people exists (Canonical won't do it).

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  4. Re:Cool by MadMidnightBomber · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Debian unstable is like a Windows RTM, except it's more stable.

    PS. Don't mod this funny like you did last time, it's fucking true.

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  5. Re:And just like a koala by Hillgiant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So a bit like some children then ?

    Some? You are obviously not a parent.

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  6. Re:Cool by minvaren · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everything is different, but the same... things are more moderner than before... bigger, and yet smaller... it's computers... San Dimas High School football rules!

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