What is coming in the next Ubuntu?

It is not very long since the current release of Ubuntu, that has a support life of 5 years. However, the next release is now in beta and it looks good. See EdgyEft/Beta - Ubuntu Wiki.

I am particularly looking forward to the F-Spot to manage photos with support for Flickr.

So how long have you guys been waiting for Windows Vista :-) This will have been my fourth major release of Ubuntu in 2 years. They install automatically and so twice a year my operating system takes a big leap forward at zero cost. Oh and sorry that you will need to buy new hardware whereas I won't.

Of course not only will an automated install work for me but because we use Sun Ray thin clients the one upgrade will update all of us at home.

Oh yes and not only all that but so far every update also gets faster. This time the startup and shutdown speed has had significant attention so much it seems they are going to drop the shutdown sound as there is not time for it to play anymore!

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Comments

[Paul Huxley]

I knew we had more in common than God-blogging. It's ubuntu (or Ubuntu)... am currently considering installing the beta...

[DaveW]

Paul,

From the wiki:

If you want to upgrade from 6.06 LTS to 6.10, run the following command (either via ALT-F2 or a terminal):

gksu "update-manager -c -d"

:=)