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10th day of the 10th month in 10th year, Ubuntu released 10.10 , a perfect date to denotes geekiness at its best 1010101010 
Kidding aside, here’s the excerpt
Coming from the Meerkat department
Some time ago a group of hyper-intelligent pan dimensional beings decided to finally answer the great question of Life, The Universe and Everything. To this end, a small band of these Debians built an incredibly powerful distribution, Ubuntu. After this great computer programme had run (a very quick 3 million minutes…or 6 years) the answer was announced. The Ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and
Everything is…42, and in its’ purest form 101010. Which suggests that what you really need to know is ‘What was the Question?’. The great distribution kindly pointed out that what the problem really was that no-one knew the question. Accordingly, the distribution designed a set of successors, marked by a circle of friends…to ultimately bring Unity to all things living…Ubuntu 10.10, to find the question to the ultimate answer.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
This is a preview of
Debian pushes development of kFreeBSD port
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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.
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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.
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There are lots of operating system virtualization, you have the option to use an open source or a proprietary software depending on your needs,familiarization and most significantly, budget. People have several reasons why they use virtualization, and the most common is for testing purposes wherein they can test different configurations from different OS. Another reason is to security and consolidation, where they can save money and electricity.
Some of the popular open source linux virtualization softwares are OpenVZ, Xen, KVM and VirtualBox. You can also try proprietary softwares such as VMWare and Citrix XenServer, a commercial implementation of Xen.
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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.
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Linux.org presented one of the most detailed important events in the history of the Linux operating system development
1983
September Richard M. Stallman announces the GNU Project, an attempt at creating a completely free operating system.
1984
January Work begins on the GNU operating system
1985
October Free Software Foundation established as a non-profit organization to promote the development of Free Software. Sponsors the GNU Project.
1987
January Computer science professor Andrew Tannenbaum publishes the textbook Operating Systems: Design and Implementation which includes a copy of a teaching version of Unix called Minix.
December Larry Wall releases version 1.0 of Perl
