Well, I decided to beat the crowd and go ahead and install Gutsy Gibbon before the official release (tomorrow). Everything is fine, nothing is ruined. Some fonts changed in a minor way, and the default desktop background changed, and now I have a whole lot of updated packages. For instance, Gaim is now finally Pidgin.
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