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.
