Oct 26, 2010 14:35 GMT  ·  By

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 shell for 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.