This week marks the real start to the development cycle for Ubuntu’s 9.10 release called Karmic Koala. The Ubuntu Developer’s Summit is being held in Barcelona this year, and is now in full swing. A lot of interesting blueprints have been uploaded to Canonical’s Launchpad service. Let’s see what kind of topics the Ubuntu folks are discussing for this release.
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Karmic Koala Blueprints
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Greening the Grid Smartly
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Its 2009. However, the technology used to power all of our 21st century devices is borne out of 19th century ideas and 20th century implementations. The United States power grid is in need of an upgrade. The Obama Administration has set aside money in the latest round of stimulus to spearhead an upgrade of the ailing power grid. President Obama has even asked Congress to come up with legislation to spur development of new high capacity transmission lines and for the country to double its use of renewable sources of electricity. Energy moguls like T. Boone Pickens have developed plans on how to cut the country’s dependence on foreign oil and take advantage of sources of energy here in the United States. Even Google has stepped up and offered its own plan, called RE<C or Renewable Energy less than Coal. Over the last few years California has stepped up adoption of renewable power as a percentage of its total usage. In 2008 Governor Schwarzenegger even signed an executive order requiring California to obtain 33% of its energy from renewable sources.
Google Sync: Recommendations
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Recently Google released a tool that allows some mobile phones, including the iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile-based units to synchronize Google contacts and Google calendars. However, currently there are some limitations to this technology. Below are some recommendations for Google to implement in their sync technology.
Hardy Heron blueprints
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Canonical’s next version of its widely popular Ubuntu Linux operating system, codenamed Hardy Heron, will be version 8.04 and will feature Long Term Support. Ubuntu has been, for the last few years, striving to create an operating system that is a free and easy to use alternative to Windows.
One of Canonical’s services, Launchpad is a community site dedicated to bug tracking, feature requests, and package building. Its a novel approach to having one interface for the many different types of developers that help put Ubuntu together.
One feature of Launchpad, the blueprints area, is a place both developers and the avid Ubuntu user can go and request features to the point of actually specifying details on how they think the feature should be implemented. For Hardy Heron, there are currently 6 “Essential” features, 10 “High Priority” features, 18 “Medium Priority” features, 9 “Low Priority” features, and 1 undefined priority feature.
I’d like to discuss the features that I think are quite important, or just plain cool, that are in the pipe for the next version of Ubuntu, Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS.
