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Mark Shuttleworth starting to get the idea of standardizatio

Post by Tsuroerusu » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:06 pm

In a recent mailinglist posting (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubunt ... 00058.html) Mark Shuttleworth confirmed a six week delay of Ubuntu Dapper Drake, which, among other stuff, would be devoted to the following:
* devote an additional three weeks of bug-fix-only quality assurance
time to the release for the core development team

* integrate the work of the localisation sprint to ensure excellent
out-of-the-box support for Asian languages as well as other
languages for which we are receiving a stream of community
contributions

* devote additional developer time to UI polish that we believe will
make Dapper stand out as a high-quality desktop operating system
for large-scale deployment

* bring the XFCE desktop environment, which has received substantial
community-driven work during this cycle, into the main Ubuntu
repository to improve the usefulness of Ubuntu on lightweight
desktops

* ensure that Dapper will be LSB certified at the time of release

* provide for wider testing of the new Ubuntu server kernels and
server features

* ensure that the new graphical Live CD installer receives very
widespread testing
I noticed two big things in here, the thing of making XFCE more available sounds great ('ey Linc?) for school with older machines that can't run GNOME or KDE, and even more significant is the mention of LSB certification!
If that is true could guys like Adobe finally make apps that would run on both Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu, of course with different packaging?
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