Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala is just around the corner, due for a release next month. If that doesn’t excite you enough, then take a look at the release schedule for the version that comes after it Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx ^[1], which will be a Long Term Support Release, providing three years of updates for desktops and five years of updates for servers.

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Release Schedule

December 3rd, 2009 Alpha 1 release

January 7th, 2010 Alpha 2 release

February 4th, 2010 Alpha 3 release

March 4th, 2010 Beta 1 release

April 1st, 2010 Beta 2 release

April 15th, 2010 Release Candidate

April 29th, 2010 Final release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

For a further detailed Roadmap with Kernel Freezes and dates of testing and developers summits, check out the schedule on the Ubuntu Wiki ^[2].

Thanks to the guys at Ubuntu Geek ^[3] for bringing this to our attention!