Mark Shuttleworth has announced that he will step down as the CEO of Canonical giving way to Jane Silber.
Read the complete story:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/15275/shuttleworth_steps_down_as_ubuntu_ceo

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Canonical has officially released Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, on 29th October 2009. This is their 11th release. The release cycle of Karmic was different this time with only one Beta. There are a lot of improvements over Jaunty.
It uses GNOME 2.28.1 as desktop environment, EXT4 file system, 2.6.31.1 Linux kernel, Xsplash, new art work and more.
New improvements include:

Improved Boot time
EXT4 as the default file system over EXT3
New boot loader. Grub2 is used for EXT4 support
New X based splash screen
New splash theme
New login screen
New wallpapers

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Canonical has officially released Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, on 29th October 2009. This is their 11th release. The release cycle of Karmic was different this time with only one Beta. There are a lot of improvements over Jaunty.
It uses GNOME 2.28.1 as desktop environment, EXT4 file system, 2.6.31.1 Linux kernel, Xsplash, new art work and more.
New improvements include:

Impreoved Boot time
EXT4 as the default file system over EXT3
New boot loader. Grub2 is used for EXT4 support
New X based splash screen
New splash theme
New login screen
New wallpapers

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Hello,

I have got a couple of books on Linux and RHCE that I would want to put on for donation. Anyone who needs them are free to contact me.

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Google, on June 4th, announced the availability of its browser Chrome for Linux as well. The version 3.0.183.1 is still very unstable and lacks a lot of features that are otherwise present in the Windows package.
One of Chrome's main advantages over other web browsers is the way it handles tabs as separate processes. Why is this important? Well, if a web page crashes, it doesn't take the whole browser with it, but only the tab it was opened in, significantly increasing overall stability.

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Foremost is a Linux tool originally developed by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research. Primarily thought of a data forensics tool for law enforcement, the program has been released to the public. Here we'll try using it for a specific purpose. Rather than explore all its capabilities, we'll look at one area particularly helpful to Linux users - to undelete files in Ubuntu.

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Canonical, developers of Ubuntu, released the Alpha 1 of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 dubbed "Karmic Koala" on 14th May.
Some of the various upgradations from the previous versions :

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Canonical has just released a new "cloud" service for all users. There are two storage options momentarily: a free 2GB account and a $10/month 10 GB one. If you are familiar with services like Dropbox, Ubuntu One apparently does the same job.

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The KDE community announced the immediate availability of the third maintenance release of KDE 4.2. The new version brings lots of bug fixes, especially for applications such as Kate, KRunner, Kephal, KSysguarda, KScreensaver, Kalzium, Konquest, JuK, KAlarm, KMail, KGpg, Ark and of course the KHTML engine. Among the major features brought by KDE 4.2.3 we can notice that the default mail client, KMail, received improvements to the "online IMAP filtering" function and the system tray icon. For a detailed list of changes, please visit the official KDE 4.2.3 changelog.

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Ubuntu tweak has announced the release of Ubuntu tweak 0.4.7.
There are lot of hidden options in Ubuntu that can make computing experience better and eye candied.
But not everyone is aware of these hidden options. And this where Ubuntu-tweak can help. It is designed to help users configure Ubuntu as per liking with only clicks of mouse. It provides a lot of options that are either not available in default desktop or are scattered all over. At present, it supports Gnome desktop.

Features of Ubuntu Tweak

* View of Basic System Information(Distribution, Kernel, CPU, Memory, etc.)

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