Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Karmic Koala Alpha 3 released

As you already knew the Ubuntu team is working hard on the new version of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. They already released Alpha 1 and Alpha 2 version and now we have the brand new Alpha 3 which you can download it from here (see download links).
Download links:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-3/ (Ubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-3/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-3/ (Xubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/karmic/al... (Ubuntu Studio)

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

Read more here.