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As posted on LinuxMint Official website:

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 9 “Isadora”. Linux Mint 9 “Isadora” New features at a glance: New Software Manager 30,000 packages Review applications straight from the Software Manager APT daemon Visual improvements New Backup Tool Incremental backups, compression, integrity checks Backup/Restoration of the software selection Menu improvements Editable items Transparent menu Always start with favorites “Add to”…

http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1403

personal comment:

The next big version of Ubuntu Linux OS has now arrived and if offers new exciting features for users like quicker boot speed on almost any machine, along with a social networking-oriented ” Me Menu”,Ubuntu Software Centre 2.0 for easier access to new software, and a slew of new cloud-based services courtesy of Ubuntu One — not to mention the Ubuntu One music store.
Ready for the ride. To see the technical overview, read more to ubuntu.com

http://www.freelinuxtutorials.com/?mobile or

for Iphone users –> http://www.freelinuxtutorials.com/?iphone

enjoy mobile browsing!

Fedora 12 has been released,the latest innovative Linux distribution from the Fedora Project, a global, collaborative partnership of free software community members sponsored by Red Hat.

Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 12! We have several major new features with special focus on desktops, netbooks, virtualization and system administration.

In relation to this release, I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop and no issues on wifi or audio of whatsoever using the linux generic, as reference to the previous release as I posted on my old post –>http://www.freelinuxtutorials.com/quick-tips-and-tricks/looping-soundno-audioslow-audio-playback-on-ubuntu/

Oct 29,2009

“The latest version of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) has been released. Offering numerous enhancements for both desktop and server environments, this release includes notable features like Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud images, the Ubuntu One “personal cloud”, and Linux kernel version 2.6.31. Please be sure to use a release mirror close to your geographic location to help reduce the stress on Ubuntu’s primary servers; using BitTorrent for downloads can help alleviate the load even more. If your organization has adequate network and server resources, please consider hosting a mirror as well.”

date:Oct. 7, 2009

The Debian Release Team is pleased to announce that it sees the port of
the Debian system to the FreeBSD kernel fit to be handeld equal with the
other release ports.  The upcoming release codenamed ‘Squeeze’ is
planned to be the first Debian distribution to be released with Linux
and FreeBSD kernels.

The kFreeBSD architectures for the AMD64/Intel EM64T and i386 processor
architectures are now release architectures.  Severe bugs on these
architectures will be considered release critical the same way as bugs
on other architectures like armel or i386 are.  If a particular package
does not build or work properly on such an architecture this problem is
considered release-critical.

KDE 4.3.2 Stabilizes Free Desktop

KDE Community Ships Second Translation and Service Release of the 4.3 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates

October 6th, 2009. Another month has passed since the release of KDE 4.3.0, so today the KDE Community announces the immediate availability of KDE 4.3.2, a bugfix, translation and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.3.2 is a monthly update to KDE 4.3. It ships with a desktop workspace and many cross-platform applications such as administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, development tools and more. KDE’s award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages.

I’ll be trying 9.10 beta release this week and hopefully give you an update about it.

The Ubuntu  team has announced the beta release of Ubuntu 9.10  Desktop and Server editions, and the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Codenamed  “Karmic Koala”

Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition improves on the work of 9.04 to get you going  faster, with improved startup times and a streamlined boot experience.

Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition integrates Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud setup in the  installer and provides improvements to system security with AppArmor,
including an AppArmor profile for libvirtd to further isolate virtual  machines from the host system.

As posted on openSUSE website dated Oct.1 2009, their latest release of 11.2 M8 is now ready for download and you can be one to first to test for bugs or any issues.

There are some important updates and additional packages included on the release.

Changes between openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7 and Milestone 8 are:
* Linux 2.6.31 final
* more 11.2 theming is in place
* -lang packages are built as noarch
* bluez 4.5.1, PulseAudio 0.9.17
* Samba 3.4.1, php 5.3.0, postresql 8.4.1
* Firefox/KDE integration

For complete article:

http://news.opensuse.org/2009/10/01/opensuse-11-2-milestone-8-released/

Latest news from opensuse.org: (sept.14,2009)

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that the openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7
(M7) is available for download[1]. This release includes GNOME 2.28 beta 2,
KDE 4.3.1, RPM 4.7.1, and much more.

This is a Milestone Release, one of several that lead up to the 11.2 final
release in November. It may not be suitable for production systems, but is
ready for contributors who want to help with testing and development for 11.2.
This release is of “beta” quality, and would have been labeled a beta in past
openSUSE development cycles.