karmic

Tuxmachines: "In line with its newbie-friendly tradition of providing a way to do everything via a graphical user interface, Ubuntu provides a way to do a distribution upgrade by clicking a button at the top of the Update Manager."

Gearman is a lightweight, high-performance solution for farming out processing work from one machine to another.

LinuxPlanet: "When GNOME 2.0 was born, it left a lot of GNOME users out in the cold because it jettisoned the very features we loved.

Eight years later, your editor takes another look at GNOME in the form of the Karmic Koala."

Tuxradar: "Hot on the heals of the final release of the Karmic Koala, we've put together a video montage of 64-bit versions of Microsoft's Vista and Windows 7 operating systems booting alongside Canonical's Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10.

Watch all four at once and see which one wins!"

InternetNews: "Faster boot times, cloud services, more software and fewer 'paper cuts' get packed into the latest Linux release."

Ubuntu fans will already know that there are three more days until the latest version of Ubuntu drops, and we'll be knee-deep in coverage when it does.

Shortly after version 9.10, or Karmic Koala, lands on the metaphorical shelves, the next round of development will hit the ground running.

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Netstat -vat: "Ubuntu 9.10 RC is now available, marking the final step before the general availability of the Karmic Koala next week.

Might have been fun, if it had reached general availability today, with the Windows 7 release, but hey the release is only 7 days away."

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."

Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris: "The most recent DRM Radeon support features of Jeremy Fitzhardinge kernel have been enabled and tested at Xen 3.5 Dom0 on top of Ubuntu Karmic Koala (Beta) Server."

Gear Diary: "In this release they are starting to incorporate some of the drivers that I have been waiting for.

Specifically, I have wanted good support for my previously reviewed Blue Icicle XLR Microphone adapter."