Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 20, 2009 @08:02AM 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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Re:Meanwhile Linux Continues To Be A Trainwreck by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-20 18:54 · Score: 0, Troll

Meh. Don't bother. When I first tried Ubuntu 8.04, I believe it was, I found many jarring UI problems, and reported all of them. They were marked in the end as 'not a problem' or whatever. I don't even remember anymore what the classification was, but it was clear the developer marking them hadn't even read the full description. On one or two there was a request for more information, which was nonsensical in the context. This is how an Ubuntu developer closes many bugs in a day, I suppose. Very productive...