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New Ubuntu branch gets funny name
by Grant Robertson Apr 12th 2007 at 4:30PM
Gutsy Gibbon is scheduled for release in October of 2007, following Ubuntu's rigid and rapid release cycle. To be known in production as 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon will also take "an ultra-orthodox view of licensing: no firmware, drivers, imagery, sounds, applications, or other content which do not include full source materials and come with full rights of modification, remixing and redistribution"
For those of us that still want to get our non-GNU on, Automatix will no doubt be available for the new platform but, we're forced to wonder what code in the current;y circulating Ubuntu might get the heave-ho under a renewed focus on open and transparent source code.
What else is on the table for this next cycle of the fastest growing Linux distribution? An unattended, enterprise-geared installation package named Ubiquity which should make Ubuntu even more attractive to large corporate clients. Shuttleworth is also pushing -- third time is the charm -- for "composite by default", using the somewhat revolutionary Compiz 3D desktop environment. Although he's pushed for a default composite desktop before, he seems more realistic this time around, "There's a reasonable chance that Gutsy will deliver where those others have not. I remain convinced that malleable, transparent and extra-dimensional GUI's are a real opportunity for the free software community to take a lead in the field of desktop innovation "
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
RIch said 4:55PM on 4-12-2007
Please please please can the next release be Horny Hamster!?
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BlackCoffeeNoSugar said 4:58PM on 4-12-2007
All Linux distributions need to find out a easy way of installing new third party programs, if they want to win in the consumer market. Is it really so hard to get rid of the command window and just next-next-finish?
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Billy Presley said 5:08PM on 4-12-2007
Gutsy will not by-default have the GNU licensing change, in the list post, Mark says that it will be a 'New Flavour' of Ubuntu, to be available alongside the traditional Ubuntu variety.
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Amanda A. said 8:03PM on 4-12-2007
"All Linux distributions need to find out a easy way of installing new third party programs... just next-next-finish?"
Actually, installing many third-party programs in Ubuntu (and several other distros) is easier than "next-next-finish." There's a couple programs, such as the Synaptic Package Manager, that contain catalog of hundreds (thousands?) of free third-party programs. You just check the ones you want on your system, hit okay, and go get some coffee or watch a movie or something (depending on how many programs you checked) while the system downloads and installs the programs for you. I would estimate that 90% or so of them install with no additional input; you just come back and they're on your system menu, ready to run.
I wish that someone made something that easy for Windows, even if it was just open-source programs via Sourceforge. Clicking "next" so many times is annoying if you're installing more than a couple programs at once....
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Brett M said 12:58AM on 4-18-2007
How 'bout Happy Hyena? or Hasty Hedgehog? or Hapless Heron? or Hungry Hippo (that one is taken I believe?)
:D
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