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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Beta now available
by Paul O'Brien Oct 2nd 2009 at 8:10AM
The Beta release of Canonical's new baby, Ubuntu 9.10 'Karmic Koala', is now available for download.
As well as the usual host of version updates to each of the components (including Firefox finally getting an official update to 3.5), changes in 9.10 include a visual refresh, a boot sequence improved in both appearance and performance, inclusion of the new 'Ubuntu Software Center' (which replaces 'Add/Remove' in the applications menu), Gnome 2.28 (which sees the Pidgin IM client replaced with Empathy), rapid application development with Quickly, Ubuntu One file sharing, Linux kernel 2.6.31, Intel's new UXA video driver architecture for improved performance on Intel hardware, ext4 as the default filesystem (replacing ext3), GRUB2 as the default bootloader, improved iSCSI support, updated and improved AppArmor and Uncomplicated Firewall - you can read the full list on the Beta page.
Ubuntu 9.10 is available for download in both ISO format (directly and via Bittorrent) and for the first time in Cloud image format for use with Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon's EC2.
Only one Beta version of Karmic Koala will be available - the release candidate arrives October 22nd (the release date for Windows 7!) before the final release lands on October 29th.
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IvanP91 said 8:36AM on 10-02-2009
this is nice. I was thinking the beta would be released soon considering Oct 29 release date is the final.
but why replace Pidgin IM?
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motang said 9:52AM on 10-02-2009
Their thinking was that it had voice and video chat, but Pidgin has that as well now.
motang said 9:52AM on 10-02-2009
9.10 has been very good to me. Much better than 9.04 has been and 9.10 isn't even out yet. On my notebook my wireless works very well, in 9.04 network manager kept dropping my connection. On my desktop I wasn't able to get sound upon login until I delete .pulse from home directory but in 9.10 it works as it suppose to.
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rothgar said 2:54PM on 10-02-2009
I had similar issues and found out for me it was a problem that x86 wouldn't support my wireless card with WPA encryption. But x64 was fine.
I just updated to 9.10 beta x64 and am loving it.
The netbook remix layout is awesome too!
kriscolumbus said 10:40AM on 10-02-2009
I did a fresh install, and the boot is much faster than previous versions on this hardware. Also, I set the same image for desktop, xsplash, and gdm, and it makes for a seamless transition that looks very slick. My wireless performance was also better in this version with the default drivers (usually, I would load my own drivers for better speeds).
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yolarrydabomb said 2:04AM on 10-03-2009
I hope they fix the SLI hang
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Vikram said 8:49PM on 10-04-2009
I haven't updated to Karmic yet...but can you tell me are there any regression which would hinder boot up....as such or any other problems
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