Ubuntu 6.10 – Edgy Eft – released today!

Ubuntu 6.10The Ubuntu team have been proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 6.10, codenamed Edgy Eft!

Edgy includes some cool new stuff, including:

  • Tomboy: an easy-to-use and efficient note-taking tool.
  • F-Spot: a photo management tool that enables tagging, photo editing and automatic uploading to on-line web management sites such as Flickr.
  • GNOME 2.16: which in addition to new features such as enhanced power management, makes the GNOME desktop more secure, faster and more stable.
  • Upstart: substantially faster startup and shutdown, plus bonus high-resolution graphics.
  • Firefox 2.0: offering inline spell check support in web forms, easy recovery of crashed sessions, built-in phishing detectors, enhanced search engine management with built in OpenSearch support, and better support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds.
  • Evolution 2.8.0: which brings new features such as vertical message
    panes.
  • Proactive security features, preventing many common security vulnerabilities even before they are discovered.

Go and download Ubuntu 6.10 today, then tell the world!

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