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Next Ubuntu named “Lucid Lynx”. Mark Shuttleworth video here.

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“In a video message to attendees of UbuCon Atlanta,
Shuttleworth said that 10.04 would be based on the GNOME 2.0
desktop and would extend the horizontal server scalability of
Debian into cloud computing. Releases after Lucid Lynx would
include the GNOME 3.0, which works on the desktop.

“In a video message to attendees of UbuCon Atlanta, Shuttleworth
said that 10.04 would be based on the GNOME 2.0 desktop and would
extend the horizontal server scalability of Debian into cloud
computing. Releases after Lucid Lynx would include the GNOME 3.0,
which works on the desktop.

“Lucid Lynx is the third biannual long-term support (LTS)
release by Ubuntu; LTS releases are supported for three years for
desktops and five years for servers.

“This is something that we get by virtue of the fact that we
work with free software, you just couldn’t do this with proprietary
software because you don’t have the visibility on the planning
horizon,” Shuttleworth said.”


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