1. Ubuntu Technical Roadmap
Collaboration Delivers
Matt Zimmerman
Ubuntu CTO
Confidential - Canonical Copyright 2007

4. Release roadmap Standard releases are supported for 18 months
Today
7.10
7.04
6.10
6.06 LTS
SERVER LTS
5.10
5.04
4.10
Standard releases are supported for 18 months
Long Term Support releases are supported for 5 years on servers.

5. Development Milestones
Development Cycle
Community
Release
Plan
Development Milestones
Releases
Why this matters
Know what's coming: no secrets
You can participate: developers in your organization help shape Ubuntu
Overall structure
Continuous community input
Watching the open source landscape
UDS – focal point / launch, Canonical+community
Daily builds and milestones – anyone can test, give feedback, no risk, early and often, make sure it works for you and your organization
Beta – widespread low-risk upgrade
Community participation
Get involved
You can download milestone 3 right now, experience new features and test in your organization
Think about sending developers to UDS
many developers in the audience
organizations doing interesting things with Ubuntu
The bleeding edge
Ubuntu
Developer
Summit
Development
Beta
Release 5

6. Platforms Ubuntu Desktop Ubuntu Server Ubuntu Mobile ... 2004 2005
2006
2007
...
Ubuntu Desktop
Ubuntu Server
Ubuntu Mobile
Ubuntu was born on the desktop, and it has always been a strong focus, with each release better than the one before
Along the way, added new flavours like Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, which are part of the core platform and developed in sync with Ubuntu itself. Also local versions in countries around the world, both simple translations of the standard Ubuntu system and fully customized derivative distributions like Guadalinex (Andalucia), special-purpose derivatives like Ubuntu Studio (audio, video and graphics), even Nexenta
Last year, server was launched, to meet the needs of business users, providing a single platform across desktops and servers, with professional support available 24x7
7.10
6.06 LTS

7. Desktop Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 7.10 Network Manager
Ubuntu 7.04 was a great leap forward with improved support for wireless networks using the open source Network Manager tool. This makes it possible to effortlessly roam between multiple wired and wireless networks, use secure wireless encryption, even create ad hoc wireless networks. Be connected wherever you are
Windows migration assistant copies Internet Explorer favorites, Firefox bookmarks, desktop wallpaper, AOL IM contacts and Yahoo IM contacts. Be immediately connected when switching to Ubuntu. Contact your friends, colleagues, favorite websites without copying everything manually
Also be immediately connected to other Ubuntu users, with Avahi. You can instantly see other Ubuntu systems on the network which are providing services, like music collections in Rhythmbox, and network printers
7.04 also took the headaches out of multimedia by automatically installing codecs available on the Internet on-demand, with no searching or complicated how-to documents
7.10 bringing even more of what desktop users want
Network Manager
Windows settings migration
Easy codec installation
Avahi plug-and-play
3D desktop out of the box
Multi-monitor configuration
Laptop power profiling
More still to come!

8. Server
April 2007: Ubuntu 7.04
First with VMware paravirtualization (paravirt_ops)
Automated crash dumps with apport
Fully automated command-line upgrades from Ubuntu 6.10
Secure by default
Zero open ports in default installation
July 2007: Ubuntu Server Team spotlight
October 2007: Ubuntu 7.10
Turn-key web-based administration
New one-step server recipes (tasks)
Proactive security with AppArmor
7.04
Ubuntu Server now over one year old, third release
Ubuntu virtual machines provide the highest performance under Vmware compared to other distributions
If a system service crashes, debugging data is automatically captured to /var/crash for later analysis by system administrators or support technicians
Server community team ramping up, holding weekly online meetings, gathering feedback and requirements from users
7.10
Select web administration as an install-time option, single checkbox to install and configure
Then, perform common configuration tasks with a simple web interface, without ever touching a config file
LAMP stack already available in current release, one-step setup of this extremely popular web application platform
Look for more such options in Ubuntu 7.10: no searching for packages, no digging through documentation, just select and go
Security has always been a strong point, but getting even better now, with mandatory access control provided by AppArmor, excellent open source security project (talk happening here)

9. Mobile New category: not a phone, not a PC - MID
Enormous potential, poised to take off
October 2007: First release with Ubuntu 7.10
Support for Intel Ultra Mobile Platform 2007, 2008
Fully functional Firefox browser
Wide range of Internet applications
Development is a challenge – Ubuntu addresses it
Cross development makes developers cross!
Integrating Hildon framework into Ubuntu
Incorporating applications from moblin.org
Incorporating components from maemo
Develop natively on Ubuntu i386
Build custom images for supported devices
Everything is a package, ready to install

10. Long Term Support
8.04 LTS
SERVER LTS
coming soon: roll-up of security and bug fixes to date, new targeted hardware fixes
8.04 will be the next LTS release
Supported until 2010/2013
Excellent choice for server deployments next year
Can roll out 7.10 and upgrade
Also upgrade path from 6.06 to 8.04: stay on LTS stream
Long upgrade window, in keeping with the needs of LTS users
Incorporate what we've learned since the first LTS
6.06 LTS
SERVER LTS

11. Release roadmap - LTS 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 8.04 LTS
8.04 LTS
SERVER LTS
7.10
7.04
6.10
6.06 LTS
SERVER LTS
5.10

12. What's next?
Ever-expanding library of open source
Our ideas and yours
Growing community of users and developers
Accelerating innovation collaboratively