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It’s time to counting down the release of Ubuntu 9.10 who has code name Karmic Koala. It will release at October 29th 2009. You can get alert of karmic release by adding a script from Ubuntu to your blog or your HTML page, then you will get a counting image like this :

The other ways is importing it’s ical file to your Google Calendar

Can’t wait for release?
You can get the beta release from Ubuntu or form mirrors near from you.

What’s New inside Karmic Koala?

1. Upstart
   Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running. Visit Upstart for detail.
2. Boot Experience
3. Software Center
4. GNOME 2.28
5. Application development with Quickly
6. Kubuntu Netbook release
7. Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Images
8. Ubuntu One file sharing
9. Linux kernel 2.6.31
10. hal deprecation
11. New Intel video driver architecture available for testing
12. ext4 by default
13. GRUB 2 by default
14. iSCSI installation
15. AppArmor
16. New profiles
17. Libvirt
18. Uncomplicated Firewall
19. Non-eXecutable Emulation
20. Blocking Module Loading
21. Position-Independent Executables

You can get detailed information about Karmic Koala here. Hope we will get the fastest operating system on earth
*keep waitin’

Source :  http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/beta
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