Announcing Edubuntu 7.10 - Gutsy Gibbon for Education

[Richard Weideman]

The Edubuntu team is proud to announce version 7.10 of the Education
variant of the Ubuntu family of distributions.

Edubuntu 7.10 is based on Ubuntu 7.10, a Linux distribution for your
desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases,
a tight selection of excellent applications included, and an incredible
variety of add-on software available with a few clicks.

Edubuntu also bundles selected Education desktop applications, as well
as the latest the latest in LTSP thin client technology, allowing for
an easy install and set-up of a thin client network.

For feature highlights of Edubuntu 7.10, read our full announcement at:
  http://www.edubuntu.org/news/7.10-release

Professional technical support is available from Canonical Limited and
hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about
support, visit:
http://www.ubuntu.com/support

The Ubuntu 7.10 family will be supported for 18 months on both desktops
and servers. Users requiring a longer support lifetime on servers may
choose to continue using Edubuntu 6.06 LTS, with security support until
2011, rather than upgrade to or install 7.10.

Read more in the following press releases:

  Ubuntu 7.10           http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu710
  Desktop edition       http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-desktop710
  Server edition        http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-server710
  Ubuntu family         http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-family710

To Get Edubuntu 7.10
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To download Edubuntu 7.10 visit:
  http://www.edubuntu.org/Download

To obtain CDs visit:
  https://shipit.edubuntu.org/

Users of Edubuntu 7.04 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 7.10
via Update Manager. As always, upgrades to the latest version of
Ubuntu are entirely free of charge. For further information about
upgrading, see

  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which will
document any caveats and workarounds for known issues. They are
available at:

Edubuntu release notes:
  http://www.edubuntu.org/ReleaseNotes/7.10
Ubuntu release notes:
  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/710

Find out what's new in this release with a graphical tour:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/710tour

If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a
bug but aren't sure, try asking on the #edubuntu IRC channel,
on the Edubuntu Developers or Edubuntu Users mailing list,
or on the Ubuntu forums:

  #edubuntu on irc.freenode.net
  http://www.ubuntuforums.org/
  http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
  http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel

Helping Shape Ubuntu
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If you would like to help shape Edubuntu and the Ubuntu,
family of software, take a look at the list of ways you
can participate at:

  http://www.edubuntu.org/Community
  http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate/

Developers should consider attending the upcoming Ubuntu
Developer Summit in Cambridge, Massachusetts (US) starting
29 October. More information is available at

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Boston

More Information
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You can find out more about Edubuntu and Ubuntu and about
this release on our websites:

  http://www.edubuntu.org/
  http://www.ubuntu.com/

To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to
Ubuntu's 
very low volume announcement list at:

  http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce

-- 
Richard Weideman
+27 (83) 321-2233
richard at ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Education Programme Manager
http://www.edubuntu.org
http://www.ubuntu.com
#ubuntu-education