Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft has been released on 26th October 2006 with many exciting new features. Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, the world?s fastest growing Linux distribution, announced its latest desktop and server version. Following months of development and user feedback, Ubuntu 6.10 offers a cleaner, sharper design, together with new and enhanced desktop applications and advances in security. Significantly faster boot up times and the best in leading edge free software technologies make the latest Ubuntu the first choice for many new and existing Linux users.
New Features
The desktop version introduces a host of new features, an improved interface and a wide variety of new applications and desktop tools making Ubuntu 6.10 flexible and user-friendly. Enhancements include:

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, a replacement start-up manager offering a cleaner design, eye-catching effects and a substantially …

Jigdo
Jigdo is a tool for distributing and obtaining Debian ISOs in an easy, fast and very efficient manner. You can use this tool for Ubuntu Linux too.
You can learn more about Jigdo from Debian-Jigdo.
Here is a guide to create an Ubuntu iso using jigdo.
Downloading Your First Image
Please use these following steps if you are starting from scratch and don’t have any Debian ISOs on hand:
Install Jigdo
First install the jigdo-file package:

sudo apt-get install jigdo-file

Download The .template And .jigdo Files
For each ISO image you want to download, you’ll need both the .jigdo and .template file for that image. For example if you want to create Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) Beta iso:

wget http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu-6.10-beta-alternate-i386.jigdo
wget http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu-6.10-beta-alternate-i386.template

You can choose another mirror of course
Run jigdo-lite
Run jigdo-lite and give it the .jigdo file of the image you want to download.

jigdo-lite ubuntu-6.10-beta-alternate-i386.jigdo

Jigsaw Download “lite”
Copyright (C) 2001-2004 | jigdo@
Richard Atterer | atterer.net
Loading settings from ‘/root/.jigdo-lite’

—————————————————————–
Images offered by ‘edgy-alternate-i386.jigdo’:
1: ‘Ubuntu 6.10 “Edgy Eft” – Daily Build i386′ (edgy-alternate-i386.iso)

Further information about `edgy-alternate-i386.iso’:
Generated on Mon, 09 Oct …