La nuova versione Hoary ormai è prossima al rilascio, fra le tante novità è presente anche Gnome 2.10, ed una maggiore integrazione del sistema con il suddetto WM.

Un'estratto dall'unnuncio ufficiale:

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* GNOME 2.10 -- Very fresh... Released yesterday!
* X.org 6.8.2
* Kickstart compatibility for automatic installations
* Several new desktop package-management tools to make it even
easier to stay up to date
* An ultra-fast boot process, with optimized init process and
special optimizations for the hotplug system
* Improved hardware support on a range of platforms -- laptops in
particular gain improved suspend/hibernation support and processor
frequency scaling
* Unified and improved hardware detection between the install and
live CDs, which gives us live CDs on powerpc and amd64 too
* A range of improvements related to internationalization,
translations, and different keyboard layouts, including a
new smart keyboard selector that guesses your keyboard based
on keypresses
* A load of new Ubuntu-specific documentation, thanks to the
hard work of our community documentation team
* Instant messaging, desktop publishing, office productivity,
with vorbis playback and Python 2.4 ready out of the box
* Enhancements to the hardware abstraction layer to provide you with
BIOS, CPU, memory and LSB data (infrastructure for the upcoming
hardware database)
* Enhanced proactive security due to privilege minimization of many
processes which previously ran as root. This work reduces the impact
of many potential security vulnerabilities.
* The very best of the 100% FREE / LIBRE application software world.
* Much, much more!

Potete trovare maggiori informazioni nell'annuncio nella ML ufficiale:
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2005-March/000019.html

Stefano