Canonical's devs are not wasting any time

Oct 26, 2014 14:46 GMT  ·  By

Canonical is not wasting any time and the Ubuntu developers started working on the upcoming Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) a few days ago, right after the launch of Ubuntu 14.10.

The first ISO images for Ubuntu 15.04 were made available today and they can be downloaded by anyone. Don't expect to see anything different, because the new system will look like the old one for a long time.

The Ubuntu development cycle is of only six months, but the first big changes don't usually land too soon. First, the Ubuntu team pulls some of the new packages from the Debian unstable branch and only after that is process completed and other improvements made.

Canonical is also preparing to start a new UOS (Ubuntu Online Summit), and many of the changes that will be implemented in the 15.04 branch will be decided then. For now, the new ISO image just boots and works, for the most part, but regular users should ignore it for the time being.

You can download the Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) Daily Build from Softpedia and give it a spin in a virtual environment, like VirtualBox, where it can't really harm anything if things go terribly wrong.