Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala is really nice

Ubuntu's Koala food mixes with Windows VMs
The Register: "Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0 includes support for Windows virtual machines, letting you hoist Windows Server 2003, 2008, and Windows 7 images atop a Eucalyptus cloud...

Thoughts on the Koala
OStatic: "In general, I've been very impressed, especially in comparison to another, recently released, operating system. This mini review will focus on using Ubuntu as a desktop system."

Downloading Ubuntu 9.10 beta with zsync
Experimenting with GNU/Linux: "This post will show how you can use zsync to save your bandwidth and time while you download the next version of the karmic koala."