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The seven novel long series is over, we all know the ending, we know what happened to Voldemort, what the other horcruxes were, the way Harry prevailed, and what lay behind the perennially ambiguous behavior of Severus Snape.

We didn’t know everything it seems.

Just as the hype following the last book in the Harry Potter series was starting to fade it becomes clear that J. K. Rowling’s characters are still very much able to stir the media. How so? Well, the author’s just announced that Albus Dumbledore, one of the main characters in the Harry Potter series, Harry’s mentor and headmaster of Hogwarts School of Magic is gay. Yup, Dumbledore is gay.

She made the explosive announcement at a question and answer session at New York’s Carnegie Hall.

It’s everywhere now: Reuters, The Washington Post, The Observer.

Can you believe the noise this is all making? Having a celebrity comming out of the closet is one thing… but this is a fictional character!

Just when I thought the time had come to put all Harry Potter theorizing to bed, comes this announcement. It seems things can still get interesting.

So… the whole Canonical Ubuntu family is now available as Gutsy Gibbon and there’s even a new member, Gobuntu, for the free software enthusiasts. All I can say is that I’m still waiting for one unofficial Ubuntu cousin to be released: Fluxbuntu.

Fluxbuntu is not a Canonical proyect but rather an independent distro based in Ubuntu. The difference between Fluxbuntu and Ubuntu is the desktop environment and window manager: Fluxbuntu uses the ROX desktop environment with the Fluxbox window manager instead of the typical Metacity and Gnome used by Ubuntu.

That difference translates into lower system requirements and better performance as Fluxbox is very light and simple so Fluxbuntu offers all the goodness in Ubuntu with higher performance –or the ability to run in even older systems.

According to Fluxbuntu’s official page (which is now undergoing some kind of maintenance) the release is barely two days away.

I can’t wait.