Congrats to the folks over at Ubuntu for getting Breezy out the door, I can’t wait to get it running (though I am loth to put it on my powerbook). In just a few short years, Ubuntu has risen to the cream of the crop. The best way to describe it is a combination between Fedora’s focus on usability, and the size of Gentoo’s package repository. Sure you can’t compile all your code using -fBREAKMYCODE or -f1+1=3, but I don’t need that. Breezy is another important step for Ubuntu, and Dapper Drake (the next release) is going to be extra special for them.
Speaking of, the boys at GNOME (okay, well at least one of them) appear to be delving heavily into software optimization. I’ve been reading Federico’s blog about his attempts to speed up the chooser, and the results look definitely promising. Like Mark said in his announcement for Dapper, this is the release (of GNOME and Ubuntu) that is going to be going head to head with Vista. Now I haven’t really seen anything on Vista, but from what I’ve heard, its just going to be catch up with Tiger. I think the work being done on GNOME is quite important. While adding new features is important, they should never be added at the expense of basic performance.
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