I’m pretty excited because this weekend Ubuntu announced that Edgy is now in Beta!

From the Ubuntu site:

“The full release notes can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyEft/Beta

Highlights include:

• On the Desktop
  • GNOME 2.16
  • OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 RC 2
  • X.org 7.1

  On the Server

  • Task selection for easier installation of mail servers, web servers, etc.
  • A pre-release of the upcoming LTSP 5.0 with support for local devices, printers on thin clients as well as language and session selection from the LTSP login manager, network swapping, etherboot support out of the box and many more additions and improvements like network swap support that reduce the minimal requirements for thin clients to 32MB memory.

“Under the hood”

• GCC 4.1.1
• glibc 2.4
• Linux 2.6.17
• New init system.

As always, Ubuntu includes the very best of the 100% Free / Libre application software world, and each new release incorporates countless newfeatures and bug fixes from the global development community.”