Ubuntu's new release out in October has been christened "Gutsy Gibbon", the free software project founder Mark Shuttleworth revealed.
"Folks, allow me to introduce the Gutsy Gibbon, who will be succeeding the Feisty Fawn," Shuttleworth said in an e-mail to Ubuntu developers.
He said features in Gutsy Gibbon will be an easier install process for workstation rollouts, integrated management and a Compiz/Beryl-powered desktop.
An improved desktop has been targeted for the previous two Ubuntu releases, but Shuttleworth said: "there's a reasonable chance that Gutsy will deliver where those others have not".
Aiming to be within the bounds of the strictest interpretation of "free" in free software, he announced a yet to be named Gutsy Gibbon version that will ship without any firmware, drivers, imagery, sounds, applications, or other content which does not include full source code (or other materials) and full rights of modification, remixing and redistribution.
In an e-mail to Ubuntu developers, Shuttleworth said: "work will be done in collaboration with the folks behind gNewsense". gNewsense is a Linux distribution backed by the Free Software Foundation that removes all non-free material from Ubuntu.
Support for Gutsy Gibbon will end in April 2009.
