The entire Linux community is indebted to you, our hopes and dreams are with you, and congratualtions to every participant in the 8.04 launch. and with that been said its necessary to take a look at the future.

While i,m a great supporter of free software, i realize that there will always be some propeiatory software that some user may want, and for Ubuntu to succeed it needs to be able to support these in-case a user opts for them, not necessary promote them but they have to be there. i hope more efforts are thrown to convince 3rd party software makers to support Ubuntu.

With Interpid Ibex a new theme overhaul is promised, i think the aesthetic component of Ubuntu should be taken with a high priority, i cant express how important aesthetics are to the migration process of many of those who wish to try Ubuntu.

I think although the current color pallet of Ubuntu is represent the ‘Human’ theme and philosophy of ubuntu i think that for many users mixing ‘Brown’ with ‘Orange’ is not an optimal choice for a color pallet, ‘Brown’ is an excellent color to represent ‘nature’ and ‘Human’ but i dont think mixing ‘Orange’ with it is visually appealing, perhaps the color pallet could be reviewed to include only different gradients of ‘Brown’ or ‘Brown’ with a color other than ‘Orange’.

with that been said, i wish you luck in your work. our dreams lie with you now.

We have been using Ubuntu since Feisty Fawn and we just upgraded to Hardy Heron last week. It is easily the best Ubuntu yet. All our hardware worked right out of the box - first time!

We are very impressed with Hardy and wanted to say “thank you” to everyone involved.

We are doing everything we can to get the word out, including handing out CDs.