Here we are, in the final Ubuntu 7.10 development week, as the release candidate version was made available on Thursday night and we will wait for the final release this Thursday, on October 18. Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu and Gobuntu were also updated, and this release candidate is available as a live desktop CD, server CD and alternate text-mode installation CD.

Ubuntu 7.10 supports, for the first time, install-time encryption and here at Softpedia we have created a tutorial (with screenshots) to guide you through the installation steps, in order to obtain an encrypted Ubuntu system.

This week you've learned how to convert your favorite movies, in order to watch them on your PSP, with the help of Avidemux 2.4 Preview 2.

If you are anxious to get your hands on some nice Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon CDs as soon as it will be released, then you should pre-order them right now from Ubuntu's ShipIt service, FREE of charge.

After the release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on 18th October, Dell will pre-load it on their selected desktops and notebooks. Even Michael Dell is expected to personally use it.

Let's move on to the updates and fixes for 6.06 LTS, 6.10, 7.04 Ubuntu releases. Some common security updates, for all of the previously mentioned Ubuntu versions, are:

￭ USN-527-1: xen-3.0 vulnerability
￭ USN-528-1: MySQL vulnerabilities
￭ USN-529-1: Tk vulnerability
￭ USN-530-1: hplip vulnerability

Let's start now with the older version, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, and see what updates were made for it:

￭ dircproxy 1.0.5-4ubuntu0.6.06.1
￭ mysql-dfsg-5.0 5.0.22-0ubuntu6.06.5
￭ sun-java5 1.5.0-13-0ubuntu0.6.06
￭ firehol 1.231-4ubuntu0.6.06
￭ tk8.3 8.3.5-4ubuntu1.1
￭ tk8.4 8.4.12-0ubuntu1.1

Now let's see what updates were made for Ubuntu 6.10:

￭ mysql-dfsg-5.0 5.0.24a-9ubuntu2.1
￭ dircproxy 1.0.5-4ubuntu0.6.10.1
￭ firehol 1.231-4ubuntu0.6.10
￭ tk8.3 8.3.5-6ubuntu1.1
￭ tk8.4 8.4.12-1ubuntu0.1
￭ hplip 1.6.9-0ubuntu2.1

And finally, let's have a look at the updates for Ubuntu 7.04:

￭ mysql-dfsg-5.0 5.0.38-0ubuntu1.1
￭ dircproxy 1.0.5-5ubuntu0.1
￭ tk8.3 8.3.5-6ubuntu2.1
￭ tk8.4 8.4.14-0ubuntu2.1
￭ subversion 1.4.3dfsg1-1ubuntu1.1
￭ hplip 1.7.3-0ubuntu1.1

Now that the release candidate version is available, everyone is welcome to install and test it, and I'm pretty sure it will make a lot of waves in the Linux world. See you next week with more great pieces of news about Ubuntu! Oh, and don't forget to check out our website on October 18 for the final release of Ubuntu 7.10, codename Gutsy Gibbon.

You can read more on the official Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

You can download the RC version of Ubuntu 7.10 (for testing purposes only) right now from Softpedia.

You can download Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn right now from Softpedia.

You can download Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn right now from Softpedia.

You can download Xubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn right now from Softpedia.

You can download Edubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn right now from Softpedia.