Centrify: Ubuntu Server Edition 9.10 Meets Active Directory

When Canonical launched Ubuntu 9.10 earlier today, Centrify Corp. — maker of Microsoft Active Directory-related tools — raised its hand and vowed to support Ubuntu Server Edition 9.10. It was a small but significant announcement that could (potentially) help Ubuntu gain a stronger foothold within corporate Windows networks. Here’s why.
Centrify offers “Active Directory-based auditing, access [...]

ZaReason Bolsters Ubuntu 9.10 Branding

ZaReason is taking a small but significant step to help strengthen the Ubuntu brand. To help celebrate the Ubuntu 9.10 launch, the PC maker is offering “a stick of Ubuntu aluminum case badges with each computer ordered” October 29 through November 5. Here’s why you should care.
Let’s be honest: Many consumers and businesses have yet [...]

Xubuntu 9.10 Released

Xubuntu 9.10, codenamed the “Karmic Koala”, is the latest and greatest version of Xubuntu, released on October 29th, 2009. It integrates the latest Xfce-desktop releases with the high-quality and feature-rich core of Ubuntu, resulting in a light-weight and easy-to-use Linux distribution.
Release Notes
To learn about all the great enhancements and improvements that can be found in [...]

UbuntuStudio KarmicKoala

Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu, built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphics enthusiast or professional. http://www.ubuntustudio.org
The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its sixth release: Ubuntu Studio 9.10 “Karmic Koala”. With this release, which you can download in a 1.4GB DVD, Ubuntu Studio offers a pre-made selection of [...]

Mythbuntu 9.10 Release Notes

Mythbuntu is built upon the base of Ubuntu and thus has all the non-gnome specific features of Ubuntu. You can find Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala release notes here
Note: alternate disks are no longer being made. They had a very low take rate, and we feel it’s better to focus our attention on desktop disks.
Head on [...]

Edubuntu 9.10 Released

Edubuntu is an educational operating system that is a part of the Ubuntu family. It aims to make Ubuntu, the popular Linux-based operating system, a great choice for the computing needs of children, students, parents, teachers, and schools. It brings many of the best educational open-source applications and tools to the Ubuntu operating system.
What’s New

With [...]

Ubuntu Rescue Remix 9.10

Version 9.10 (Karmic Koala) of the very best Free-Libre Open-Source data recovery software toolkit based on Ubuntu is out.
This release of Ubuntu-Rescue-Remix features up-to-date versions of the most powerful free/libre open-source data recovery software including GNU ddrescue version 1.11, Photorec, LVM2, and GNU-Fdisk.
*** Download the live CD/USB ***
The live Remix provides a full shell environment. [...]

Ubuntu 9.10 released

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop and Server
editions, Ubuntu 9.10 Server for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon’s
EC2, and Ubuntu Netbook Remix, continuing Ubuntu’s tradition of integrating
the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality,
easy-to-use Linux distribution.
Read more about the features of Ubuntu 9.10 in the following press releases:
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Preparing An Ubuntu Machine For Upgrade

The Debian / Ubuntu upgrade mechanism is a wonderful piece of software. When the new release comes out, just follow the instructions given by the update manager and the upgrade will be done almost automatically. Sometimes Ubuntu asks for your help when you made other changes than the upgrade program itself wants to make. This [...]

Running Ubuntu 9.10 With Older PC Hardware

Last week we looked at the Ubuntu 9.10 netbook performance with two Atom-powered netbooks comparing the Karmic Koala numbers against that of Ubuntu 9.04. For the most part, Ubuntu 9.10 offered better performance over its predecessor, but there were a few performance drops in different areas. With our netbook results out of the way, next [...]