The main themes for feature development in this release will be improvements to hardware support in the laptop, desktop and high-end server market, and aggressive adoption of emerging desktop technologies.Ubuntu’s Feisty release will put the spotlight on multimedia enablement and desktop effects. We expect this to be a very gratifying release for both users and developers.
All this is a little late, considering SUSE and Mandriva already have these features built in. Rather unexpectedly for those who considered Ubuntu the Best Hope Yet for the Linux desktop, Ubuntu is now playing catch-up, not only compared to other Linux distros but also compared to Windows Vista.
But I don’t want to moan (yes, really). I’m just happy one of my favorite distros will be getting some eye-candy love.
