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THIS DOCUMENT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS - TRIBE 1 HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED YET

Introduction

The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. The Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 1 is the first alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10, and with this new alpha release comes a whole host of excellent new features. The feature list for 7.04 has been slowly growing more exact since Feisty opened late last month. While looking forward nothing is completely certain, here are some of the new things that have already arrived, such as GNOME 2.19, a new 2.6.22-rc kernel, as well as a good look at the approved specifications for Gutsy.

Note: This is still an alpha release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released in October 2007.

In General

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy

Pre-Upgrade

Please make sure you have your linux meta package (e.g., linux-generic) installed before you upgrade from feisty.

GNOME 2.19.1

Kernel

Tribe1 will release with the 2.6.22-6.13 (2.6.22-rc3-based) kernel. The Tribe1 kernel will therefore feature significant enhancements and fixes that have been merged in the last few months into the mainline (Linus) kernel.

Desktop & Laptops

For massive power, heat and headache reduction the kernel now features dynticks, which in laptops should mean more battery life and burnfree laps, and in desktops, media center pcs etc. a quieter, cooler environment.BR For laptops especially, a new wireless stack is used that will allow for a much better wifi performance and driver management.BR The new flash handling module (UBI) will allow your flash devices (e.g. USB flash drives etc.) to last longer and work around any bad blocks that come up. UBI also makes it possible to dynamically create, delete and re-size flash partitions (UBI volumes).

Virtualization

VMI and KVM continue to grow by leaps and bounds. The KVM update brings many new features: faster performance due to initial paravirtualization support, live migration even between an AMD or Intel CPU, host suspend/resume support, CPU hotplug support and much more.

Drivers

Many device drivers have been added to the kernel allowing it to support a plethora of devices and accessories.

Massive merge from Debian

As with the beginning of any development cycle, the Gutsy one has seen the merge floodgates upon once again. This merge not only brings in lots of new version of various packages, but also a fair number of totally new applications.

Download Tribe 1

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Reporting Bugs

Gutsy Gibbon has bugs! (I bet you're not surprised). Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions will help fix bugs and improve future releases. Please report bugs through [https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs Malone]

If you want to help out with those bugs, the [http://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad Bug Squad] is always looking for help.

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More Information

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Credits

The Tribe 1 release notes were brought to you by:

  • Corey Burger

Feedback

This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Marketing Team. Please feel free to contact us regarding any concerns or suggestions by either sending an email to ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com or by using any of the other methods on the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam Ubuntu Marketing Team wiki page].