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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