The second, and highly anticipated Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) event for 2010 takes place these days at Caribe Royal in Orlando, USA until 29th October. Mark Shuttleworth, father of the Ubuntu project, delivered the usual keynote speech, kicking off the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Natty Narwhal.
As we previously stated in our articles, Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) will bring multi-touch gesture support, better hardware support, improved artwork, and ARM compatibility. The development team will focus their efforts on quality!
Unity became a very important piece of software in the Ubuntu operating system, being introduced with Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Netbook Edition. Apparently, the Ubuntu developers will concentrate all their efforts to improve the Unity shell and to integrate it much better in the GNOME desktop environment.
With this, we can announce that Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) will include the Unity shellfor the Desktop Edition, by default! Among other features announced by Mark Shuttleworth and Gerry Carr in last evening's Q&A, we can mention that the uTouch gesture and multi-touch stack will be greatly improved and it will support more devices, and Ubuntu Software Center will support donations for different software applications.
Ubuntu One will also be improved in future versions of the Ubuntu operating system, and users will be able to synchronize contacts, bookmarks, rich data, support for Android devices, iOS, Windows OS, and integration with Facebook or Google.
As Mark Shuttleworth said in his keynote at UDS, in about one year, the Ubuntu desktop interface will definitely compete with today's modern desktop environments from Microsoft and Apple. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) will be the first release with a professional looking desktop environment, and every Ubuntu user is urged to contribute to make it perfect!
Ubuntu 11.04 will have 5 Alpha releases, one Beta, and one Release Candidate. The first Alpha version will be available for testing worldwide on November 4th. Ubuntu 11.04 is dubbed Natty Narwhal, it will be the fourteen release of the Ubuntu operating system, and it will see the light of day on April 28th, 2011.
Will let you now enjoy a very nice Ubuntu promo, followed by Mark Shuttleworth's keynote at Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal).
Don't forget to visit our website on November 4th, when the first Alpha version of Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) will be launched.
mmmm not sure if i want a new ui, i like gnome just fine. I'll wait and see how it turns out but i would really like if they give us a choice by making a vanilla gnome distro, maybe call it gubuntu like kubuntu or something.
Comment #1.1 by: Linux-user on 27 Oct 2010, 14:48 GMT
I also like the way Gnome looks nowadays. I've hated Gnome Shell since it was announced for the first time. Those posts about Gnome Shell being delayed really made me happy, because I don't want Gnome Shell.
Now Canonical choose to use Unity, instead of Gnome Shell and in my opinion Unity is way better than Gnome Shell, but I still prefer old fashioned Gnome. For me old fashioned Gnome just works perfectly.
Gnome looks like its been crafted straight out from the 1990's. The Ios GUI is the future, slick, streamlined without all the bloat. Yeah, Microsoft will join the party sooner or later.
Comment #3 by: iamlinuxnoob on 27 Oct 2010, 21:38 UTC
In my opinion Unity Desktop is very unclear, there is to much space wasted for the Buttons, it should be improved.
The whole Desktop should not content only Buttons if one Application is opend.
For me the left sidebar, if you wanna call it is too big, in my view they should ship out Unity maybe for the October Release 2011.
A new gui will be ok as long as it is possible to avoid any silly bling - disable all the pointless noises and keep the screen clear of clutter and endless pop-up things that MS adore
I love ubuntu and hope it keeps a clean and simple gui
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