Kubuntu 7.10 Released
October 18th, 2007 | Published in Kubuntu | 4 Comments
October 18, 2007 – Kubuntu 7.10 Officially Releases. Highlights for this release are:
- KDE 3.5.8
- KDE PIM Enterprise Edition
- OpenOffice.org 2.3
- Dolphin File Manager by default
- Kubuntu Restricted Manager makes installing those non-free drivers a breeze
- Strigi Indexer and Search Daemon
- New Qt Language Bindings for C# (Qyoto) and Java (Jambi)
- KDE 4 Beta 3 in the Universe repositories
- and much more…
Yesterday, while writing the release notes for Kubuntu.org, I asked for some title names by telling people to fill in the blanks. The results? Some of them were pretty funny, and some were pretty frightening, and one I really liked. Here are some for your viewing pleasure:
Kubuntu 7.10 - What the F is a Gibbon?
kubuntu 7.10 - putting the K in Kicking A***
Kubuntu 7.10 - Good?... or Gutsy?
Kubuntu 7.10 - Putting the K in Ubuntu
Kubuntu 7.10 - Sticking it to the man!
Kubuntu 7.10 - Because KDE is still Better
Kubuntu 7.10 - If god had a desktop
Kubuntu 7.10 - Use it or I'll Eat this Kitten.
Kubuntu 7.10 - Because Gutsiness is next to Godliness
Kubuntu 7.10 - forget Feisty! Fling Feces
Kubuntu 7.10 - PURE KENIUS
Kubuntu 7.10 - Go for the Gutsy
Kubuntu 7.10 - Does this look infected to you?
Kubuntu 7.10 - There Be Dragons Still
Kubuntu 7.10 - No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Distro
(except for nixternal, but that was an accident.)
Kubuntu 7.10 - 100% USDA Certified Organic Gutsy
Kubuntu 7.10 - Forget the Gibbon go with the Dragon
Kubuntu 7.10 - Monkey with this!!
Kubuntu 7.10 - For Monkey's that breath fire
Kubuntu 7.10 - Cause honestly Why wouldn't you?
Kubuntu 7.10 - Or else the Terrorists have already wonThis is what happens when you ask such a question to sleep deprived developers on the eve of release. Anyways, Kubuntu 7.10 is out, it kicks arse, and I am proud to have worked with the greatest group of developers that I have ever worked with. So what are you waiting for, go DOWNLOAD it already!
Thanks to every person who filed a bug report, who fixed a bug, who thought about fixing a bug, who packaged a bug, who repackaged the package to fix that bug, who answered a question on the user lists, who answered a question on IRC, who…ahh hell! Thank You Everyone!!!
October 18th, 2007 at 11:54:37 (#)
[...] it, let’s welcome Kubuntu 7.10 as well! And nixternal’s blog has an interesting post on what they thought of title names for Kubuntu. Check it out and see how amusing it [...]
October 18th, 2007 at 15:35:01 (#)
If god had a desktop…
October 18th, 2007 at 18:24:16 (#)
[...] nixternal ยป Kubuntu 7.10 Released “Yesterday, while writing the release notes for Kubuntu.org, I asked for some title names by telling people to fill in the blanks. The results? Some of them were pretty funny, and some were pretty frightening, and one I really liked. Here are some:” (tags: kubuntu gutsy gibbon release linux os) [...]
October 19th, 2007 at 00:11:14 (#)
This quite amusing! Hehehe. I love “No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Distro (except for nixternal, but that was an accident.)”