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Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, arguably the most expected release in a month already packed with major releases is now available in all of the Linux flavors sponsored by Canonical.

The biggest news in 7.10 is the new Gobuntu, and Ubuntu flavor made exclusively of open source and free software –all and every bit of software there is licenced under one of the GPL’s. Gobuntu has been on the works since 2005 and was officially announced earlier this year in order to address the concerns among the free software community about the increasing amount of non-free software included in Ubuntu –specially since version 7.04.

System requirements and links.

• Gutsy Gibbon needs 384 MB RAM for graphical installation and 256 for alternate and text installations. It’s available for i386, 64bits and SunSPARC hardware architectures.
• The release notes are quite informative about known bugs, new features and other relevant stuff.
• Links to downloadable .iso images through mirrors is available in the usual place.

The other family members.

• Kubuntu includes KDE 3.5.8 and a sneak preview of KDE 4.0, a new .deb packages manager and many other new options you can see in the release notes. Here’s the download page.
• Xubuntu the lighter Ubuntu cousin has an updated Xfce desktop environment. Novelties and download links can be found at Xubuntu’s release wiki entry.
• Edubuntu the changes in Edubuntu mainly mirror those of Ubuntu’s main distribution.

Gobuntu: the new guy.

Something you should know before going for Gobuntu, the new kid on the block, is that there’s no LiveCD nor graphic installer. For the time being, Gobuntu is not for the newbies but rather for the free software enthusiasts with a bit of Linux experience under their belts. You can get it here.