The word "oneiric" describes a dreamlike state. Shuttleworth says that the name Oneiric Ocelot is intended to represent the innovation process, which he characterizes as a confluence of daydream and discipline.
The Ubuntu developers are currently focused on delivering version 11.04, codenamed Natty Narwhal, which will launch in April. The highly-ambitious 11.04 release will introduce a whole new desktop experience based on the Unity shell. It represents the most significant user interface overhaul in Ubuntu's history.
Unity is shaping up nicely in the latest 11.04 prerelease builds, but there is still lots of room for refinement during subsequent cycles. It's likely that implementing deferred Unity features will be a high priority for Oneiric. There are also sure to be edge case bugs and other issues to address that will be apparent in the user feedback that will come when Natty brings Unity to a much larger audience.
One of the deliverables for Oneiric that Shuttleworth highlights is the Qt-based Unity 2D environment, an alternate implementation of Unity that doesn't require hardware-accelerated graphics. Unity 2D will be a fallback solution for users who don't have suitable video hardware or driver support to run the conventional OpenGL-enabled Unity environment. He also points out that the inclusion of Qt will open up opportunities for third-party developers.
"We'll need to keep up the pace of innovation on all fronts post-Natty. Our desktop has come together beautifully, and in the next release we’ll complete the cycle of making it available to all users, with a 2D experience to complement the OpenGL based Unity for those with the hardware to handle it," he wrote. "The introduction of Qt means we'll be giving developers even more options for how they can produce interfaces that are both functional and aesthetically delightful."
Canonical is holding its bi-annual Ubuntu Developer Summit event in Budapest this May to start the planning process for Oneiric. Although I've participated as a developer in the last several Ubuntu Developer Summits, I won't be able to attend this one because Google's developer-centric Google I/O conference is the same week. The scheduling conflict poses a tough choice for third-party application developers who are interested in both Ubuntu and Android.
The average ocelot is no match for a hungry lion, but Ubuntu's little roar is still pretty hard to ignore. Shuttleworth says that Ubuntu is "now shipping on millions of systems from multiple providers every year."
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