It looks like Ubuntu users will soon be able to touch, tap, swipe and more as multi-touch support is expected to begin arriving with the next update, Ubuntu 10.10. And for anyone familiar with the version number of Ubuntu, that 10.10 translates into October 2010. But that aside, it looks like the support will be more »

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu has recently released a nice video on YouTube that officially announced the upcoming version of Ubuntu.

Basically, aside from a really cool sounding name, Lucid Lynx, the upcoming version will be 10.04 and as you can determine from that will be available in April of 2010. In other words we have a little while to wait before it will be available, or more importantly stable for anyone to download, install and begin using.

That said, there is not any reason why Linux geeks and those curious should not begin to get excited.

Anyway, features aside, according to Mark Shuttleworth, at just about 3:40 he begins to tell us about the name, which again is Lucid Lynx. In regards to Lucid, he noted that as being clear and focused on the important parts and the while the Lynx is a predator, he described it as being a “thoughtful predator.”

While that does not give the features away, it does, in a strange way make Ubuntu 10.04 sound just a little bit interesting.

Ubuntu’s founder, Mark Shuttleworth, has proposed a plan to make his distro of Linux just that much more popular. He plans on overtaking Apple’s Mac OSX in the looks and desktop experience departments in order to overtake the art-savvy giant. Sure, these plans do sound a bit confident for where Linux is now, but that more »