(K)Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Release Candidate available: Arun's Blog

By Arun, 8 months and 24 days ago

(K)Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Release Candidate available

Ubuntu team has release the RC for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10. The release candidate is mostly stable. Here is a brief list of what is new in Gutsy Gibbon.

GNOME 2.20
Compiz Fusion (by default)
Tracker desktop search
Fast User Switching
Firefox Plugins
GUI for X
Automatic Printer installation
Read/Write access to NTFS
AppArmor Security
Hard disk encryption

Download Ubuntu 7.10 RC from here.

Here is the brief list of new features in Kubuntu 7.10:

Dolphin - New file manager
Restricted driver manager
Strigi search engine
GDebi - Deb installer
Edubuntu KDE
Kubuntu restricted extras
KvKbd - Virtual keyboard
KDE 3.5.7
New artwork
Openoffice.org 2.3
Amarok 1.4.7

You can download Kubuntu 7.10 RC from here.

KDE 4.0 expected to be released tomorrow: 5 months and 25 days ago
andLinux - Run Ubuntu inside Windows: 4 months and 17 days ago
ESPN 360 sucks: 7 months ago
Oracle releases virtualization software: 7 months and 23 days ago
Prism prototype now available for Linux: 7 months and 23 days ago

Categories: Announcement (RSS), Ubuntu (RSS)
Tags: Amarok (RSS), AppArmor (RSS), Gibbon (RSS), GNOME (RSS), Gutsy (RSS), KDE (RSS), Kubuntu (RSS), Ubuntu (RSS)

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