Articles, tutorials and reviews related to Ubuntu 9.10 ‘Karmic Koala’, which was released in October 2009.
Ubuntu’s desktop notification system will see major improvements in the upcoming “Karmic Koala” release. The most notable and obvious of these is simple how they look. The large rectangular pop-up’s familiar to users of Ubuntu […]
Ubuntu Karmic Koala will see the first step of the much heralded package-management replacement named ‘Software Store’ – whose name has caused a lot of controversy within the Ubuntu Community. What’s in a name? The […]
The 2nd Artwork Drop of Karmic Koala has brought – perhaps surprisingly – very little of note so far. Community-themes see’s an updated version of Hanso and Impressions themes, though these “changes” are not evidently […]
Tomorrow sees the Second Drop of Updated, and hopefully new, artwork into Karmic Koala’s repositories. New XSplash theme, New GDM and updated Icon themes are expected. Possibly the first inclusion of “beta” wallpaper, too, despite […]
A selection of 10 Karmic Koala “themed” wallpapers that are either are official submissions to be the default wallpaper or “koala” themed! Koala Lotus @ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds/ Karmic Shelf download @ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds/Extra_Abstract Karmic Circles @ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds/ […]
Karmic Koala will see the release of TWO official Netbook Remixes – Ubuntu NBR and Kubuntu NBR. LEt’s take a look at both as of Alpha 5… Ubuntu Karmic Koala Netbook Remix Refined, Stylish and, […]
The image above is a screenshot of my Ubuntu 9.10 desktop as it looks today, September 6th, 2009. Why am I posting a screeenshot of my Ubuntu desktop? Eh, I do it every so often […]
Alpha 5 of Ubuntu 9.04 was released to the wild yesterday and brought with it the usual slew of bug fixes, but also a few other odds and sods! A quick bullet-ized run down would […]
The fifth Alpha of Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” has been released to the wild! Hoorah! This is the last “minor” Alpha release due, as the User Interface Freeze and the second ” most important ” […]
Canonical yesterday unveiled the Ubuntu Software Store, finally giving a name, and a face, to the integration of Add/Remove, Synaptic, and other package tools due in the upcoming release of Karmic Koala. Tech site Phoronix showed off […]
Ubuntu 9.10 has been in development for the pas 4 months, ahead of its release in October. Below, I list of 10 features and changes on the way that you may not yet know about… […]
Today saw Ubuntu’s first “Artwork Drop” for Karmic Koala. Despite there being no official ‘artwork’ released from Ubuntu’s Design team as of yet, the community side of the artwork submission has been quite prolific. Of […]