Ubuntu announced the roadmap for the upcoming OS today. Mark Shuttleworth has mentioned the arrangement for Ubuntu till 11.04 in the year 2011. After Ubuntu 8.04, the upcoming LTS will be 10.04 and will be supported up to year 2015.

Ubuntu 11.04 seems to be very far from now. I’m more expecting Ubuntu 8.10, it was mentioned by Ubuntu developer saying that it will be major appearance changes and great performance on network.

LTS is an abbreviation for “Long Term Support”. Ubuntu team usually release LTS version for every 2 years, and with the LTS, users able to get a 3 year support on Desktop version and 5 years for Server version. However need to take note that in the latest 10.04, the Netbook Edition will not be LTS supported.