Ubuntu Linux version 7.10 ‘Gutsy Gibbon’ Planned For Release Thursday
Canonical plans on Thursday to release “Gutsy Gibbon,” the Ubuntu Linux version 7.10 that the company hopes will lay the foundation for a serious push into the server and other markets six months from now. That’s when Gutsy Gibbon’s sequel, “Hardy Heron,” is scheduled to arrive. Gutsy Gibbon will have the usual Ubuntu support life span–18 months–but Hardy Heron will be the company’s second version to feature long-term support, which lasts three years for the desktop product and five years for the server.
Some of the Gutsy Gibbon work involved introducing new features Canonical hopes to stabilize for Hardy Heron, said Canonical’s chief executive and founder, Mark Shuttleworth. Take, for example, the “tickless” kernel, which is designed to reduce power consumption and improve server virtualization performance by letting the processor enter a somnolent state more often.
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