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The next release of the Ubuntu GNU/linux distro has been announced today. The latest Ubuntu release, 6.06 codenamed Dapper Drake, was released in June. Now the next release, 6.10 but lovelingly referred to as Edgy Eft is set to be released the 26th of October. Edgy is currently in beta, and should enter the release-candidate stage tomorrow. Installable Live CD’s can be found through the Ubuntu/Kubuntu and Edubuntu sites for the various subprojects. If you feel like trying it out consider downloading through your favorite bittorrent client. This will probably go faster than downloading the iso and also offload their servers a bit.

Because Dapper took a tad longer than the usual 6 months to get ready, the Edgy team has taken it upon them to do a short catch-up release cycle. Most notable improvement in Edgy is a totally renewed startup subsystem, altough users might want to upgrade as well to get the latest packages fresh from the repositories.

And going on at an unprecendented pace, the next release of Ubuntu has been announced today. With number 7.04 on it’s t-shirt, and proudly named Feisty Fawn it is set to be released on the 19th of April 2007. This is what Mark ‘Mr. Ubuntu’ Shuttleworth had to say in an e-mail to the Ubuntu developers community :

In the next cycle we’ll expand on the brand new infrastructure that has
landed in Edgy as well as branching out in some exciting new directions.
This combination of courage and restlessness is also found in a young deer
that sets out to explore a world that is new and exciting - seeing the
world through eyes unprejudiced by what has gone before.

In that spirit, the release will be be code named “The Feisty Fawn”.

The main themes for feature development in this release will be
improvements to hardware support in the laptop, desktop and high-end
server market, and aggressive adoption of emerging desktop technologies.
Ubuntu’s Feisty release will put the spotlight on multimedia enablement
and desktop effects. We expect this to be a very gratifying release for
both users and developers.