Sunday, May 17, 2009

Karmic Koala Alpha 1 released

After the release of Jaunty Jackalope the team from Ubuntu started to work on the next version of Ubuntu (9.10) expected to be released in October 2009. As you can read from the title of this article, the version "Alpha 1" has already been released to public for testing purposes.

Development for Karmic just recently opened and many of the new features have not yet started to appear. Currently the changes include the sync of packages from Debian Unstable or Sid has begun, a new kernel based on 2.6.30 and the latest development release of GNOME, 2.27.1.
Also you now have a new Intel video driver architecture available for testing

Download Alpha 1


http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Alternates, Server, Netbook Remix, and MID)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-1/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-1/ (Xubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/karmic/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu ARM)
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4 comments:

  1. This means my intel is going to work and this is just as stable as 9.4 still?
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  2. from my experience, even alpha releases of Ubuntu are very stable so you can try it.

    But always remember that this is for testing purposes only and something bad can always happen (for example: lose of some files)
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  4. Plymouth won't be in 9.10 Karmic Koala. I'm going to eventually upgrade to 9.10 alpha a little bit later. I've got the 2.6.30-rc5 kernel on my 9.04 install. I do know that 9.10 will have the 2.6.31 kernel rather than 2.6.30 since the schedule might allow for it.
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