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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Hello Lucene users,

On behalf of the Lucene dev community (a growing community far larger than
just the committers) I would like to announce the release of Lucene Java
3.0.0:

The new version is mostly a cleanup release without any new features. All
deprecations targeted to be removed in version 3.0 were removed. If you are
upgrading from version 2.9.1 of Lucene, you have to fix all deprecation
warnings in your code base to be able to recompile against this version.

This is the first Lucene release with Java 5 as a minimum requirement. The

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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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Fedora Core 11 - code named Leonidas has been released on 9th June 2009.

Important changes in this version includes

* ext4 as the default file system
* experimental BTRFS activated by IcantbelieveitsnotBTR at bootup
* Faster Bootup aimed at 20 seconds.
* GCC 4.4
* KDE 4.2.2
* Gnome 2.26.1
* 2.6.29-4 Linux kernel
* Netbeans 6.5
* nVidia kernel modesetting through the nouveau open source driver.[54]
* OpenOffice 3.1.0
* Python 2.6
* Xfce to 4.6
* X server 1.6
Read complete list of changes at

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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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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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