Ubuntu 9.10 'Karmic Koala' released

It finally came the moment! It's 29th of October 2009, the day Ubuntu 9.10 is set to be released. It comes with a faster booting time featuring a smooth graphical interface so newbies don't get scarred of scrolling texts anymore, a new Software Center so you can manage your Applications more easily and a lot more features I will let you to discover for yourself here.

Go and download Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala here.

Also I wanted to give you a heads-up about one community-contributed feature that's new to Ubuntu 9.10: it's the first Ubuntu release that never needs to be rebooted for operating system updates.  The capability isn't yet included in Ubuntu by default (expect that in a future release!), but users can easily enable it by going here.

Karmic Koala Beta Released

The brand new karmic koala has just been released to public. I think you already know about what karmic koala is about so you don't want me to talk again and again about it xD

Here is the link where you can read more about it.

Download links

http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/ (Ubuntu Desktop, Server, and Netbook Remix)
http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/ (Ubuntu Server for UEC and EC2)
http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/9.10/ (Kubuntu Desktop and Netbook)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/9.10/beta/ (Xubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.10/beta/ (UbuntuStudio)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/9.10/beta/ (Mythbuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/9.10/beta/ (Edubuntu) 

Manage your iPhone/iPod Touch files from Ubuntu

Reading my Google Reader feed list I came across this great article about how can you manage your iPhone from Ubuntu. They claim that you don't need to jailbreak your iPhone and it will work right away out of the box.

Currently the only method to manage your iPhone files was to jailbrake it and SSH into it. People using an original firmware on their iPhone had two options: either restart and use Windows/Mac OS X or install a virtual machine inside Ubuntu that would emulate a Windows installation.

Read more here.

Ubuntu 10.04 Announced

Ubuntu 10.04 will be called Lucid Lynx and it's scheaduled for April 2010 and it will be a LTS version of the operating system, which means that you will have 2 years full of updates, without the need of installing all over again.
The first Alpha version will be available later this year.

Karmic Koala Alpha 5 released

Ubuntu Karmic Koala, still in Alpha stage, will be the version 9.10 of Ubuntu and will come to everyone on October 2009. Until then, you can test the Alpha 5 version of it.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Ubuntu)
http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Ubuntu Server for UEC and EC2)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Ubuntu ARM)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Xubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Mythbuntu)

Source

Balanzan, a nice looking theme for Ubuntu

While surfing the internet I came across this blog article about the Balanzan theme. I saw it and realized it's a nice looking theme and decided to share the view with you.

Now How to install it ?
add the following lines at the end of your sources.list if it’s not already in it :

##Themes du ZgegBlog: Project Bisigi
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Then open a terminal and do:

sudo apt-get update  && sudo apt-get install balanzan-theme

Source of the article: theindexer.wordpress.com

Karmic Koala Alpha 4 released

The new version (still in Alpha stage) of Karmic Koala was released just now.

You can download it here:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-4/ (Ubuntu)
http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-4/ (Ubuntu Server UEC)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-4/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-4/ (Xubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/karmic/alpha-4 (Ubuntu Studio)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-4/ (Mythbuntu)


Things to know:
GNOME  Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 3 includes the latest GNOME 2.27.4 development release.
Ubuntu One file sharing  Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 3 ships the https://ubuntuone.com/ file sharing service by default
Linux kernel 2.6.31  Alpha 3 includes the 2.6.31-3.19 kernel based on 2.6.31-rc3.
New Intel video driver architecture available for testing
ext4 by default  The new "ext4" filesystem is used by default for new installations of Karmic
GRUB 2 by default  GRUB 2 is the default boot loader for new installations of Karmic