Ubuntu Karmic development kicks off

With Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) now safely out the door the Ubuntu team has kicked off Karmic Koala development, the next major release scheduled for October this year. Canonical head Mark Shuttleworth has already laid out major plans for Karmic including even faster boot times than Jaunty, better cloud computing integration with Eucalyptus and Amazon’s EC2 and better netbook support.