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Today Mark Shuttleworth
unveiled in
ubuntu-devel-announce mail-lists some future plans for Ubuntu 9.04 that will be named as The Jaunty Jackalope. Here is the part of Mark’s short message:
There are some specific goals that we need to meet in Jaunty. One of them is boot time. We want Ubuntu to boot as fast as possible - both in the standard case, and especially when it is being tailored to a specific device. The Jackalope is known for being so fast that it’s extremely hard to catch, and breeds only when lightning flashes. Let’s see if we can make booting or resuming Ubuntu blindingly quick.
“Fast boot time…” sounds like really good idea… 
It’d be nice if they focused on something more practical, like making hardware easier to manage! It’s still a long process of Google searches and command-line hacking to get lots of hardware to work.
Maybe a GUI interface for lsusb/lspci, with a fair bit of info for each device.
Hi Rob, thanks for your post. Well, I see your point of view about new features of Ubuntu and completely agreed with it. Let me add that some time ago such company as Microsoft chose making PC as much easy as possible for MOST of users of the planet and now we all see the results - Vista asking 10 times before actually do something etc. At the same time none of people would say that he/she got stuck with let’s say suspend/restore issue on newly installed Windows at his/her laptop. So, as for me it’s time to grow up those features of people love Linux for and of course still proceed with those aspects of Linux which make it different from other desktop/laptop oriented OSes (like 1-2 seconds boot of MAC, hardware support in Windows)..
Well, viva Ubuntu, Linux and Open Source!