| Ubuntu team gets "edgy" with latest test release |
Jul. 20, 2006
 Mark Shuttleworth and his Canonical engineering team didn't take much of a break after releasing their much-ballyhooed Dapper Drake Ubuntu Linux 6.06 for desktops and servers. Only 50 days later, on July 20, they introduced their newest creation, Ubuntu 6.10 Knot-1, code-named "Edgy Eft."
The first-development CD image of Ubuntu release 6.10 features a 2.6.17 kernel, the GNOME deskop, and is designed for Intel x86, PowerPC, and AMD64 platforms, the project team said in the release announcement. CD images for all variations of the Ubuntu core OS -- Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu -- are now available.
"Edgy Eft Knot-1 ... will in time become Ubuntu 6.10," the the U.K.-based team said. "Knot-1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Edgy development cycle, as images that are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD-build or installer bugs, while representing very current snapshots of Edgy."
Key features, according to the project team:- OpenOffice.org 2.0.3
- PostgreSQL 8.1.4 database
- Thunderbird 1.5.0 email client
- Firefox 1.5 browser
- GAIM 2.0.0 instant messenger
- GIMP 2.2.11
Shuttleworth explained on the Ubuntu users' list why he chose the unusual name.
"Edgy is all about cutting edge, perhaps bleeding edge, brand new code and infrastructure. It will be the right time to bring in some seriously interesting but definitely edgy new technologies which lay the groundwork for the next wave of Ubuntu development," Shuttleworth wrote.
"An Eft is a youthful newt, going through its first exploration of the rocky territory just outside the stream. And that's exactly what we hope the development team will do with Ubuntu during the Edgy cycle -- explore slightly unfamiliar and uncharted territory that is perhaps a little out of the mainstream."
Edgy Eft will have more experimental features than any of Ubuntu's previous releases, Shuttleworth said. Edgy will also bring some changes in the project's management structures, giving more free reign to individual developers who wish to pursue their own interests, he added.
You can download the ISOs (approximately 679MB each) for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu here, or through BitTorrent.
Screen shots are available via OSdir.com here.
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