karmic koala is out — get some ubuntu zen

In computers & internet on 30 October 2009 tagged computer, distribution, epiphany, free, freeware, gnome, instant messanger, interface, jaunty jalope, karmic koala, kubuntu, linux, netbook, open source, pidgin, software, ubuntu, unr, windows with no comments

ubuntu have offi­cially released their latest linux dis­tri­bu­tion ‘karmic koala’. the strange name is in keep­ing with their double let­ter nam­ing sys­tem (the pre­vi­ous release is known as ‘jaunty jalope’) .

karmic koala is ver­sion 9.10 and has included a num­ber of major changes to ubuntu. it still uses gnome 2 (gnome 3 is not ready yet), but the inter­face and per­form­ance have been improved. stand­ard pro­grams have also been con­sidered, includ­ing epi­phany repla­cing pidgin as the default instant mes­saging client.

… oh, and the new col­ours and gui are gorgeous.

no doubt, though, that karmic koala rep­res­ents a huge step for­ward in bring­ing linux to the masses. not only is ubuntu com­pletely free, but it has a user inter­face that looks sim­ilar enough to win­dows so as not to scare off poten­tial converts.

head over to www.ubuntu.com and check it out. i’d strongly recom­mend down­load­ing a ‘live cd’ ver­sion which you can burn to a disk and run from your com­puter without actu­ally installing it. let’s see win­dows do that!!

if you have an older com­puter, kubuntu will work very well, and uni­ver­sal net­book remix is designed to work with the smal­ler net­book mon­it­ors (and spe­cial­ised hardware).

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