" a few tentative plans for the October release, dubbed Gutsy Gibbon. Shuttleworth says that Gutsy will have an "ultra-orthodox" flavor alongside the regular Ubuntu release that has no unfree software or content, developed in collaboration with the "

"It will, he says, have "no firmware, drivers, imagery, sounds, applications, or other content which do not include full source materials and come with full rights of modification, remixing and redistribution. There should be no more conservative home, for those who demand a super-strict interpretation of the 'free' in free software. This work will be done in collaboration with the folks behind Gnewsense.""

"In Shuttleworth's email, he says that the release was almost called "Glossy Gnu" to celebrate the GNU Project, but Gutsy Gibbon won out. Shuttleworth also says he hopes that the third time will be the charm for desktop effects in Gutsy:"

"On a personal note, the monkey on my back has been composite-by-default, which I had hoped would happen in Edgy, then Feisty. I'm nervous to predict it now for Gutsy, for fear of a third strike, but I'm told that great work is being done in the Compiz/Beryl community and upstream in X. There's a reasonable chance that Gutsy will deliver where those others have not. I remain convinced that malleable, transparent and extra-dimensional GUIs are a real opportunity for the free software community to take a lead in the field
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