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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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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
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One of my favorite linux distribution, Slackware, had released their version 13.0.
One of the significant change is the release of the official 64-bit. Their is also a completely reworked on the collection of X packages, major upgrades to the desktop environments for KDE and Xfce.
Full Official announcement in:
http://www.slackware.com/announce/13.0.php
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