Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala – The show must go on!
As we are allready enjoying the current Ubuntu Release, Jaunty Jackalope, the Ubuntu developers are already working on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.
Karmic Koala, as Shuttleworth announced on February 20th, is expected to be released on October 29th. Mark Shuttleworth allready anticipates some facts about the new release that continues the tradition of the extraordinary named Ubuntu releases.
Some of the features for Ubuntu 9.10, the developers are working on, are:
- Improve the starting time
- New graphical boot system
- Improvements in the integration of Moblin technologies for Netbook
- New graphical interface
- Extension of the suspend/wake up function for the Server edition
As we are used to, Ubuntu provides us a new release every six month, and keeps us updated at all times by improving the exisiting systems and developing new softwares continually.
The Developing Schedule for Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala is allready published and the key-dates are:
- May 14th : Alpha 1
- June 11th: Alpha 2
- July 23th: Alpha 3
- Agust 13th: Alpha 4
- September 3rd: Alpha 5
- September 17th: Alpha 6
- October 1st: Beta 1
- October 22nd: Release Candidate
- October 29th: Final Release!!
We are allready anxious, to get to know the Koala, are you?
Grant said
am August 20 2009 @ 6:03 pm
I am using the Koala Alpha 4 at the moment, on a Sony Vaio FS515E. I have had no reportable problems to date, the alpha 3 I could not get to install, I just did alt+F2, the typed update-manager -d and it let me do it as an upgrade. I like it so far.