Eearlier today, Mark Shuttleworth announced the Gutsy Gibbon, a Feisty +1 release. In his quite entertaining post, he disclosed several things concerning Ubuntu 7.10.

  • Good news for anyone concerned about proprietary stuff in Ubuntu. Together with people behind gNewSense, Ubuntu community will release a free to the bone variation of Ubuntu, which hasn't been named yet (how about gnubuntu?). BTW, the other candidate for 7.10 codename was Glossy Gnu.
  • Ubuntu will be easier to deploy in a massive manner, thanks to a planned unattended installation infrastructure.
  • It's still not certain whether Beryl/Compiz (or whatever its name will be after the merger) will be enabled by default.
  • These are just little hints - decisions on goals for Gutsy will be made during UDS-Sevilla, May 5-11 in Andalucia, Spain.

My girlfriend Kasia, a gibbon-lover, graciously approved the new codename. Now just persuade Autodesk to port AutoCAD to linux and she "might" make the switch :)