[Eug-lug] Gutsy Gibbon

[B. Gallagher]

Hey, I'm one of those monkeys!

So I've come to the realization that none of the wireless adapters I 
have is going to work natively with Linux. I'm just going to buy one 
that works with Ubuntu and I am looking to get a second opinion on the 
Wireless Wiki choices.

Brian


Bob Miller wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> -----
>
> From: Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com>
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:24:38 +0100
> Subject: Introducing the Gutsy Gibbon
> To: Ubuntu Devel Announcements <ubuntu-devel-announce at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> Folks, allow me to introduce the Gutsy Gibbon, who will be succeeding
> the Feisty Fawn as the focus of our development love in a few short
> weeks, for release in October 2007.
>
> The Gibbon won the G-race to be our engineering mascot for this next
> release, but it was a close run. We very much wanted to honour the
> tremendous contributions of the GNU project to Free Software by awarding
> the role to the Glossy Gnu. This prompted an intense internal debate
> about trademarks, at which both the Fiery Fox and the Icy Weasel were
> heard. In the end, however, the judge, jury and elocutionary (that would
> be me) took a liking to the Gibbon's extraordinary reach, and the Gibbon
> won outright.
>
> The Glossy Gnu will nonetheless play a role in this next release,
> because Ubuntu 7.10 will feature a new flavour - as yet unnamed - which
> takes 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. There should be no more conservative home,
> for those who demand a super-strict interpretation of the "free" in free
> software. This work will be done in collaboration with the folks behind
> Gnewsense.
>
> Our Gutsy is an expert in brachiation, which is apt for a project that
> needs to navigate a complicated forest of branches very quickly.
>
> Some folks would say that any monkey can install Ubuntu (and sadly,
> other folks would say that many have), but the Gibbon will take easy
> installation to a whole new level, with work on an
> unattended-installation infrastructure in Ubiquity that makes it trivial
> to roll out Ubuntu desktops across an organization while getting on with
> other, more complicated stuff such as Windows service pack installations
> on legacy desktops.
>
> While Ubuntu is by no means the 800-pound gorilla in the server game,
> the Gibbon will show that lean and mean count for something! Agility of
> deployment, together with integrated management will be a focus for the
> Ubuntu server team. Gutsy will not be an LTS (Long Term Support)
> release, but it will nonetheless see a lot of server work and be useful
> for fast-moving server deployments.
>
> On a personal note, the monkey on my back has been composite-by-default,
> which I had hoped would happen in Edgy, then Feisty. I'm nervous to
> predict it now for Gutsy, for fear of a third strike, but I'm told that
> great work is being done in the Compiz/Beryl community and upstream in
> X. 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, and am keen
> to see the underlying technologies land in Ubuntu, but we have to
> balance that enthusiasm with the Technical Board's judgement of the
> stability and maturity of those fundamental layers.
>
> Of course, the real work of deciding Gutsy's goals will happen at
> UDS-Sevilla, May 5-11 in the wonderful Andalucia, Spain. I hope many of
> you will be joining us for some hard work and also, no doubt, a fair bit
> of monkey business! As usual we will be running a semi-virtual summit,
> open for participation by VoIP and real-time online editing of the
> blueprints for Gutsy Gibbon. If you have items you want on the agenda,
> please make sure they are in the Ubuntu blueprints list:
>
>    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu
>
> ...and then also nominate them for discussion at UDS-Sevilla! Please
> only do this if you intend to participate in the developer summit -
> either in person or virtually - so that you can present your ideas and
> collaborate with the other developers. The summit should be a great
> combination of hard work planning Gutsy, presentations from cutting edge
> upstreams on their own plans for this next six months, and some time in
> the sun for R&R in the best tradition of the region. For those of you
> who can't make it across the Atlantic, we hope to see you for Gutsy+1 at
> UDS-Boston in the first week of November.
>
> Now that the Fawn has found her legs, and is ready for her debut on
> April 19th, we need to lay some foundations for Gutsy. In the next few
> days we will open up a limited-upload target for Gutsy and start
> uploading toolchain packages there. Our aim is to open Gutsy for general
> upload on the same day that Feisty is released. Wherever you are, that
> will be a day for celebration. Go ape!
>
> Mark
>
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