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Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the cute-cuddly-linux dept.

oranghutan writes "Computerworld is reporting Canonical has made available the Release Candidate of its latest Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 9.10, on the same day Microsoft launched the long-awaited Windows 7. 'The upcoming Canonical release, which is code-named Karmic Koala, is the latest version of the popular flavor of the Linux OS. The development release on Thursday pushed the OS one step closer to final release, which is due on Oct. 29, according to the company's release schedule Web page. An image of the OS is available for download on Ubuntu's Web site. Test versions of Karmic Koala RC available for download include the server, desktop and netbook versions.'"

4 of 483 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Would have been better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The 2009-10-29 release date was chosen over 8 months ago, several months before Microsoft announced their release date for Windows 7.

  2. Re:Still some very important stuff to fix by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Informative

    This bug was reported on Oct 15th, and fixed on Oct 22nd. What more do you want?

    Of course if you're a Microsoft slave, you can wait for a bug to be fixed "when we get around to it", which will probably be in SP1 in 4-6 months or so - depending on how buggy THIS Windows version is... (sometimes they have to release the SP faster, like with Vista).

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  3. Re:CentOS 5.4 is out, too. by geckipede · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's so very tempting to mod this Informative...

  4. Re:Shitty Summary and Article by MrFlannel · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/910overview

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