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Ubuntu 9.10

Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala was released recently. I, as a Ubuntu user, upgraded to 9.10 and I’m going to share some screenshots and reviews of Ubuntu 9.10.

After I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10, the first thing I saw is a brand new startup sequence. The shutdown sequence was removed because the shutdown only take 1 second.

Here is the screenshot of the desktop.
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/9947/desktopvp.png

The default theme and icons were updated, including the icons on the menu.
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/82/menub.png

Ignore the CrossOver Chromium, it’s not included by default (I installed it before). However, why Wine is automatically installed?

The wireless network menu was updated, to look better and more user-friendly.
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7439/wireless.png

Ubuntu 9.10 utilizes the Control Center, allows easy access to settings.
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/553/controlcenter.png

IBus was added, it seems to be an input method.
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/7461/ibus.png

The Software Center is one of the feature that Ubuntu empathized.
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/7111/installedsoftware.png
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/2775/officesoftware.png

The new Ubuntu also introduced Disk Utility, the program I saw in Fedora 11/12.
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/8022/diskutil.png

My hard drive is old, the Disk Utility said…
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/3261/diskdata.png

Ubuntu One allows you to upload, share and sync files on the cloud.
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/614/ubuntuone.png

Empathy IM is going to replace Pidgin.
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/7408/empathyim.png

I also checked other configurations, and found them similar to Fedora’s. Ubuntu 9.10 is even getting RPM package management. More and more distros will work on package management system compatibility…

Tags: Linux, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.10