The first stable version will be available in April 2012, along with 12.04 LTS release. There are are some applications in this release which are covered by EULA and any user wanting to use this release will need to agree to the terms and conditions. So, it may be a deterrent for pure open source fans.
Mark Shuttleworth posted on his blog:
This remix takes the most common changes we’ve observed among
institutional users and bundles them into one CD which can be installed
directly or used as a basis for further customization. Before anyone
gets all worked up and conspiratorial: everything in the remix is
available from the standard Software Centre. Packages out, packages in.
No secret sauce for customers only; we’re not creating a RHEL, we
already have an enterprise-quality release cadence called LTS and we
like it just the way it is. This is a convenience for anyone who wants
it. Having a common starting point, or booting straight into a
business-oriented image makes it easier for institutional users to
evaluate Ubuntu Desktop for their specific needs.
Features of the Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix are:
- Designed for large-scale corporate deployments of Ubuntu Desktop
- Adds the Adobe Flash Plugin, OpenJDK 6 Java runtime environment and other commonly-requested corporate tools
- Inspired by the most common changes made by Canonical customers
- Removes social networking and file-sharing applications, games and development/admin tools
- Pure remix of Ubuntu – uses the standard archives, kernel and updates
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