Just recently Canonical announced the Ubuntu 10.04 – which will be released on April 29, 2010 (hence 10.04). One focus is to make the version boot faster, not a critical feature if you ask me.
On another blog I read that what the community really want is an OS that “just works”. I second this wish. But I don’t think it is possible if all distributions shall support all the computer brands and then all the “put-together-by-my-neighbor” white boxes (aka: stationary computer).
I would suggest that the companies behind the different distributions decides that they will mainly focus on one brand. Let’s say Canonical works with Dell, Fedora focuses on HP, OpenSuse will be on IBM/Lenova. By doing this the different distributions will get hands on information on what hardware the different computers will have. They can work hand in hand with the different manufacturers and hopefully the result of this work could be a distribution that “just work”.
What do you think?
