Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn” a step closer
February 28th, 2007 by jamesFrom ZDNet Australia:
Ubuntu developers are finalising preparations for the release of the next version — dubbed Feisty Fawn — of the popular Linux distribution in mid-April.
Overnight, Ubuntu developer Tollef Fog Heen announced Ubuntu’s main software repository had been frozen — with no changes allowed to the code — as developers got ready to issue a fifth major test version (”Herd 5″) of the next version of Ubuntu.
I’m looking forward to taking Fesity Fawn for a test drive soon. It looks like they have made some great strides in the usability of Linux.
“I and others do believe that 3D is an essential part of the modern desktop experience,” wrote Shuttleworth earlier this month. “It is difficult to buy a PC or laptop that does not include such hardware, and in terms of transistor count it’s almost as much as your CPU these days.”
“However, when we reviewed the status of the free software applications that depend on that hardware functionality we found that they were not ready for inclusion by default in Feisty. Neither Compiz nor Beryl have the requisite stability and compatibility to be a default option in Feisty.”
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