Parte del exito de
Canonical al llevar a
Ubuntu de la recien llegada a la distribución mas popular de Linux, además de la más "
user friendly" ha sido su constancia, cada seis meses hay una nueva versión de Ubuntu, siendo la más nueva la 7.10, y cada dos años una
LTS Long term support además de contar con otras ramas como
edubuntu ,
gobuntu, xubuntu y
kubuntu, así como el hacerte llegar los discos hasta tu casa sin costo alguno.
Ese apego a sus fechas que se dan a conocer con bastante anticipación es de agradecer.
Las versiones son bautizadas con aliteración GG, FF, etc, etc y la que viene la HH sera la Hardy Heron 8.04 , las diferentes ramas suelen ser lanzadas al mismo tiempo que la principal, pero ahora la versión de Kubuntu incorporara KDE 4.0 que se espera para Enero y no sera LTS como la principal.
The release schedule for KDE 4 is now clear, and it will be released
during the development cycle of Kubuntu 8.04. This new major release
is already attracting significant interest from users, and is the
focus of most KDE developer effort at this point. The majority of
enquiries are now about KDE 4, and an unsupported Live CD of the 7.10
platform with KDE 4 RC2 we released earlier this month was downloaded
by a significant number of developers.
We regularly review each release during the development cycle, keeping
an eye on the work that our upstreams are doing. From time to time,
this work reaches a natural rest point resulting in a particularly
stable release. For these releases, Canonical makes a commercial
commitment to provide support for a longer term and these become known
as "LTS" releases.
Since KDE 4 is a major change to the platform, it is not currently at
one of these natural rest points so would not be suitable for long
term support. Instead, due to the very high interest, development
efforts will be directed towards KDE 4 and releasing Kubuntu 8.04 with
the option of using either KDE 3.5 or KDE 4.
Users currently running Kubuntu 6.06 will be able to upgrade through
the usual path to Kubuntu 8.04, keeping to the KDE 3.5 release series,
and will receive the usual 18 months of support for that
release. Future Kubuntu releases are likely to be based on the KDE series4
Así que además del esperado cambio del esquema de colores para alejarse del sencillo tema de Ubuntu habrá pruebas en Kubuntu.
The final version for KDE 4.0 has arrived, you can start trying the official version right now