Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Oct 2006 18:22 UTC, submitted by maxx_730
The Ubuntu team not only released the first release candidate for Edgy Eft (release notes), but also started pondering their next release, dubbed the 'Feisty Fawn'. "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'."
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First: it's not start up but upstart
Second: Mr Shuttleworth said he would let the developers decide to do what they would like to see implemented and it seemed that non of the devs were really interested in the 3D department, too bad I'd say, but 3D is something X.org, Gnome and KDE need to sort out, the xgl and compiz tricks just ain't good enough at the moment.
Third: Edgy Eft is nothing what it claimed to be: edgy, but it is a more than a decent distro, pretty wel worked out and especially the KDE version shines in this area. Looks pretty neat, even with the purple color scheme.
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I thought that the releases would alternate between being stable (enterprise use) and bleeding edge (introducing new technologies so that the wrinkles will be ironed out for the next enterprise relase).
Obiously, Dapper was the enterprise release, so that should make Edgy more bleeding edge. However, the only real ground breaking thing mentioned in the article (about Edgy that is) is start up. Here is an email from Mark Shuttleworth about Edgy (essentially an introduction to it just like the introduction to Fiesty Fawn): http://lwn.net/Articles/180562/
Here are some of the things Mark has to say about Edgy - "Edgy is all about cutting edge, perhaps bleeding edge,brand new code and infrastructure"; "interesting possibilities of the SMART package manager"; "Xgl/AIGLX and other wonderful wobbly window bits"; "We can afford to take some risks with Dapper+1"; "other pieces of infrastructure which have appeared tantalisingly
on the horizon".
It does not look like Edgy is living up to it's introduction. Fiesty looks be getting all of the 3D effects stuff and not Edgy. Sure, there is still a long way to go as far as 3D effects go, but why not get the community involved now by having the them use it sooner rather than later? There is no more mention of SMART (not even for Fiesty), which is surprising. I really wanted to see how Ubuntu could implement SMART. I really see nothing wrong with APT, I just wanted to see how creative Ubuntu can be, and what kind of risks they are willing to take. As for "bleeding edge" or "cutting edge" it just does not seem Edgy is that kind of release. Start up does, however, fall into that category about "interesting bits".
I don't fault Ubuntu for anything; it is normal that the things change, so I am not surprised that the official announcement does not correspond exactly to the final product. However, I hope that Fiesty really does have bleeding edge technology. Also, Ubuntu needs to work on differentiating themselves from the other enterprise Linx OS distros (Red Hat and Suse), and they won't do that with consecutive conservative releases.