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Ubuntu releases plan for 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon
by Brad Linder Jun 20th 2007 at 1:30PM
It seems like just yesterday that the Ubuntu team released Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. But Ubuntu has a 6 month release schedule, so you can expect a new version in October. Last night, a message was sent to the Ubuntu development mailing list outlining the planned feature set for Gutsy Gibbon.In a nutshell, Ubuntu 7.10 will use the 2.6.22 kernel, and include GNOME desktop 2.2 or KDE 3.5.7 for Kubuntu (with packages for KDE 4.0 release candidate two for anyone who wants to check it out). This should be the first Ubuntu distribution to include the recently merged Compiz and Beryl 3D desktop manager.
Ubuntu 7.10 will also be the first release to include a mobile/embedded distribution for mobile phones and handheld devices. We'll be interested to see how it stacks up against the existing Linux ports for PDAs and handheld computers.
Since Ubuntu is released on a time-based schedule, rather than a feature-based one, it's possible that some of these features might not make it into Gutsy Gibbon. But it's also possible that the final release will include features not mentioned in the plan.
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Todd said 2:25PM on 6-20-2007
"...Ubuntu 7.10 will also be the first release to include a mobile/embedded distribution for mobile phones..."
Woo Hoo! Finally. It may be possible to, via a bit of a hack, load mobile Ubuntu onto the new Motorola linux phones and the OpenMoko PDA:
http://openezx.org/
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page
I can't wait to try!
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westudi said 9:38PM on 6-20-2007
I gave Ubuntu a try once. I wanted to like it, and certain aspects did appeal to me, but I just don't have enough of a reason to switch any of my boxes permanently to Ubuntu. If we were still engulfed in the turmoil of Windows ME I would gladly switch, but XP and Vista have been very, very good to me.
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