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Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition puts the user at the heart of its new design
Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition puts the user at the heart of its new design Integrates dozens of new features and improvements to take user experience to next level LONDON, October 26, 2009: Canonical announced today the upcoming release of Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition, the latest version ...
Ubuntu 9.10 Feature Tour
Ubuntu 9.10 Feature Tour
ubuntu.com — Email and chat Chat with friends and colleagues through Empathy which integrates: Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, Jabber, AOL,... QQ and many more. Evolution gives you email, an address book and a calendar and works well with colleagues and friends using MS ... (more) Ubuntu 9.10 Feature Tour
Ubuntu 9.10 Technical Overview
ubuntu.com — Empathy has replaced Pidgin as the default instant messaging client, introducing the Telepathy framework . The gdm... 2.28 login manager by William Jon McCann is a complete rewrite compared to the version in earlier Ubuntu releases, permitting a more ... (more) Ubuntu 9.10 Technical Overview
Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala • The Register
theregister.co.uk — Ubuntu 9.10 is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of... the Linux distro. Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old 2.6.28 Linux kernel, and failure ... (more) Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala • The ...
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Ubuntu celebrates Thursday drop of koala desktop and server
Open Source — Ubuntu held a teleconference this afternoon to celebrate the Thursday launch of its new desktop and server edition, karmic koala. The new desktop is built around “Ubuntu One,”a collection of backup, note and contact synchronization and file-sharing services integrated into the operating system, offering 2 Gigabytes of free storage and more by subscription. The Firefox 3.5 browser and improved audio support are also part of the offering. GNOME 2.28 is the shipping desktop interface. On the server side the situation is more ...

Ubuntu 9.10 Arrives With Cloud Storage, Better 3G Connectivity
jkOnTheRun — ... only yesterday that we saw a jackalope jaunting by, but it was back in April. Now it’s time for Karmic Koala, which is the endearing name for the just released, final version of 9.10. I’m still re-running a Windows 7 netbook battery test — without Aero, this time — so I’m not ready to run Ubuntu 9.10 yet. I’ve got a download going for the Live CD, so while I wait for the software and my hardware, I’m perusing the press release and release notes for Karmic Koala. A few key updates look pretty ...

Ubuntu unleashes Karmic Koala, adds in MobileMe-like service for syncing
Gadgetell — ... a good OS, it might be worth the 25 minutes to install Ubuntu, or just use VirtualBox to try it out.  If nothing else, the Ubuntu Netbook Remix is worth a shot for anyone tired of trying to run XP on a netbook and doesn’t want to try and instal 7 onto it.  The interface is incredibly simple, and uses Firefox, so it shouldn’t be too foreign.  If nothing else, its a decent way to change up your netbook experience while waiting for Chrome OS. Read [Ubuntu] Full Story » | Written by Shawn Ingram for ...

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I could just hug Karmic Koala!Roy Tanck's weblog
Yesterday, one week to the day after the release of Windows 7, Ubuntu released version 9.10 of their Linux distribution . It’s got all sorts of new features that have been talked about extensively all over the web, but I just found out it also fixes a bug that’s been bothering me ...
Ubuntu 9.10 brings web sync, faster bootup, GNOME 2.28Ars Technica
The Ubuntu Linux distribution has received a major update today. The new version, Ubuntu 9.10, will introduce several significant new features and will deliver the latest version of the GNOME desktop environment and other applications. This is the eleventh ...
Ubuntu 9.10 Officially ReleasedSlashdot
palegray.net writes "The latest version of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) has been released. Offering numerous enhancements for both desktop and server environments, this release includes notable features like Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud images, the Ubuntu One "personal cloud", and Linux kernel version ...
Everything You Need To Know about Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)Maximum PC all RSS Feed
On October 29, Canonical is set to release Ubuntu 9.10 (codenamed “Karmic Koala”), the newest installment in the Ubuntu product line. In anticipation of this release, we took the release candidate (RC) for a test drive. Ubuntu 9.10 RC comes on a LiveCD just like its predecessors and allows you ...