Ubuntu 7.10 Alpha 5 Released! Brings New Printing System and X GUI

[Dark Star]

The fifth element ... ahem... Alpha release of the upcoming Ubuntu 7.10 (codename Gutsy Gibbon) was released last night. Tribe 5 comes with HOT new features and improvements, like a graphical configuration tool for X, new printing system and some hot Ubuntu Firefox features: "The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 5 is the fifth alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10, and this alpha release brings a host of excellent new features."

What's new in Ubuntu 7.10 Tribe 5?

• GNOME 2.19.90
• Graphical configuration tool for X that allows you to set up dual monitors, change the default resolution for all users or change your monitor's refresh rate without having to turn to the terminal

• New Features for Firefox
• Apt-Enabled Plugin Finder Wizard

• Extension Manager integration

• New Printing System which creates a default virtual PDF printer. Also, gnome-cups-manager has been replaced with system-config-printer.
• • Improved Restricted Manager GUI

What's new in Kubuntu 7.10 Tribe 5?

• KDM Artwork
• Strigi is now fully integrated into Kubuntu
• KDE Sudo (GUI for sudo)
• OpenSync in KDE PIM
• KDE PIM Enterprise Branch
• KioskTool
• Adept has new hot features
• KMail and GPG
• Virtual Keyboard

What's new in Xubuntu 7.10 Tribe 5?

• Improved printing system
• New Features for Firefox
• Artwork Updates
• The Desktop has been rearranged

Ubuntu 7.10 release schedule:

• June 7th - Tribe CD 1 (first alpha release)
• June 28st - Tribe CD 2 (second alpha release)
• July 19th - Tribe CD 3 (third alpha release)
• August 9th - Tribe CD 4 (fourth alpha release)
• August 23rd - Tribe CD 5 (fifth alpha release)
• September 6th - Tribe CD 6 (sixth alpha release)
• September 27th - Beta Release
• October 11th - Release Candidate
• October 18th - Final Release

Download Locations for Ubuntu Tribe 5 :

Desktop i386 | Desktop AMD x64 | Alternative i386 | Alternative AMD X64 | Server i386 | Server AMD X64

[QwertyManiac]

The Firefox additions look fantastic!

[Akshay]

Firefox has always been an issue 4 me wit linux.. Lets hope dis new release changes dat...

[Garbage]

Thanks for info !!!

[vish786]

We hav a " News Reporter " here..... oops sorry " Linux News Reporter "

[praka123]

Lets make it stable be released;else u'll get in 100's of MBs of downloads everyday.but does any body heard about what latest Ubuntu will "miss"

Why XSserver 1.4 won't make it into Ubuntu Gutsy — If everything goes well, Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon, the next community version of the popular Linux distribution, will appear in October. It will not, however, include the latest and greatest X window server and utilities: Xserver 1.4 and X.Org 7.3. These new windowing programs would have added more features to ...

read full article:
http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS4979518777.html

[infra_red_dude]

yeah... i suppose thats coz they won't be released by the time gusty is released. they plan to include it in the next version. lets see if gusty lives upto the hype.... i should turn out to be a good distro, imho.

[praka123]

backports,backports!
while my debian sid shows:
X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
I have withdrawn from experimenting with "experimental" repo of debian.lot of changes!u need to give half ur time for reportbug script.esp the xcb menace(?) replacing xlibs!
and feisty:
X Window System Version 7.2.0
Release Date: 22 January 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2
Build Operating System: Linux Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux prakash 2.6.20-16-386 #2 Thu Jun 7 20:16:13 UTC 2007 i686
^^^
offtopic:i am in an adventure:my mobo gigabyte 915GV intel+7300GT is "ripped off" my system and the "wizards" placed asus via chipset board(sucks!!!).but still Linux rocks!detected and adjusted.only think i have to do was to get openchrome drivers.does windows allows this?i am sure windows will reboot if some driver,h/w is missing/changed

[contactpraven2001]

hi buddy that good .....
waittting for stab relase..........

[gxsaurav]

Can I update my 7.04 installation only with new GNOME, Kernel & Firefox?

[infra_red_dude]

yes you can. jus add gusty repo and update. but its still not a stable release. so don't come back and say it din work for you.

[Charan]

Finally a easier way to config Dual monitors. BTW guys will it support configuring TV out?

[infra_red_dude]

^^^ i think kalpik can answer this Q. he's using tribe 5.

[gary4gar]

Great release!
liked the Apt-Enabled Plugin Finder Wizard

Surely i stop my torrents and download it now

Thanks for Information

[contactpraven2001]

yes firefox is a big prob in ubuntu ..........

[alsiladka]

Alpha 6 should have been out by now. Its not out yet, is it?

[gary4gar]

Jonathan Riddell jriddell at ubuntu.com
Mon Sep 3 09:41:45 BST 2007

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Following discussion with the QA, GNOME, Linux, installer and other
teams we have decided not to make a formal release for Tribe 6, but
rather to use it as a milestone for bugfixing.

Please take a look at the bugs targetted for Tribe 6

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/tribe-6

If you are assigned bugs please make them your priority for the week,
if you want to help please take a look at one of the unassigned bugs.

We still encourage testing of the daily snapshots

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/

Our testing tracker at https://iso.qa.stgraber.org/ will be updated
shortly for results to be posted.

Happy Beastie Squishing.

Jonathan

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