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Introduction

The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 4 is the fourth alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10, and this alpha release brings a host of excellent new features.

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

These features are showcased for your attention. Please test them and report any bugs you find. If you want to see what the developers have cooking for the next alpha release take a look through the gutsy blueprint page https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy.

Upgrading from Feisty

If you upgrade from feisty, please make sure that you have update-manager 0.59.23 from feisty-proposed installed. Then run "update-manager -d".

GNOME 2.19.6

As usual, this tribe brings you the latest and greatest GNOME.

Desktop search with Tracker

The Tracker indexer has been added to the desktop, making it easy and lightning fast to search for your documents, photos, music, videos, chat logs, and all other files. You can use Tracker in the search dialog, the file selector, nautilus, or the Deskbar applet.

Fast user switching

It is now possible to easily switch between user sessions without the inconvenience of entering your username or password numerous times.

Deskbar applet

The deskbar applet is now included in the default configuration. It allows quick access to your common actions, including opening web bookmarks and searches, sending messages to your contacts, and more.

OpenOffice.org 2.3

OpenOffice.org is an amazing, FREE office suite for your personal computer. Version 2.3 is a beta release and still has a few bugs, but none the less the OpenOffice.org developers have impressed us all once again. There are many new features, a bunch of bug fixes, and improved functionality.

AppArmor by default

First introduced in Tribe 3, the AppArmor security framework is now installed by default.

AppArmor is a framework for providing enhanced proactive security through mandatory access control, i. e. minimize the privileges of processes to greatly reduce the potential impact of security vulnerabilities. The profiles themselves are shipped in universe, since they are not officially supported yet.

Please see the tutorial for how to use it.

Smooth shutdown splash

The splash screen displayed on shutdown no longer flickers briefly to a black screen during the shutdown process.

Download Tribe 4

Get it while it's hot! ISOs and torrents are available at:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-4/ (Ubuntu)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-4/ (Kubuntu)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-4/ (Edubuntu)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-4/ (Xubuntu)

Caveats

There are a few known high-impact flaws which you don't need to bother reporting if you encounter them:

The desktop CD does not install translation support from network repositories. Please use System → Administration → Language Support to add translations after the installation. ( https://launchpad.net/bugs/131294)
When starting the Ubuntu live CD, or on a freshly installed Ubuntu system, you will sometimes get a crash report for the Deskbar applet. Please ignore this crash. ( https://launchpad.net/bugs/131247)
On Kubuntu installs OpenOffice currently does not start, but hangs at the splash screen. To workaround this install openoffice.org-gnome. ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127944)
The "Check CD" CD menu option does not work on the Kubuntu desktop CD. Unfortunately there is no workaround. ( https://launchpad.net/bugs/131209)
On Edubuntu server installs the "Building LTSP root" step takes a very long time (in the order of 15 minutes) without visible progress. It will eventually finish, though. ( https://launchpad.net/bugs/121547)

Reporting Bugs

Gutsy Gibbon has bugs! (I'm sure you're surprised...) Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions will help fix bugs and improve future releases. Please report bugs through the ubuntu bugtracker

If you want to help with bugs, the Bug Squad is always looking for help.