"Extensive cloud-computing functionality will be built into Karmic Koala, the next version but one of Ubuntu, Canonical has announced."

Meh, sounds like a pretty boring strategy, one mostly done already. The power management stuff is mildly interesting.

"The overall look of the distribution is also likely to be refreshed. "Brown has served us well but the Koala is considering other options," Shuttleworth noted."

This is the best news in the article - the brown has to go, for the same reason the Zune's brown just didn't work - brown = uncool, and well shit really.