{"id":8067,"date":"2009-05-15T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-15T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T12:34:00","slug":"ubuntu-karmic-koala-alpha-1-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/8067-ubuntu-karmic-koala-alpha-1-released.html","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Karmic Koala Alpha 1 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first alpha release of Ubuntu Karmic Koala &#8211; also known as Ubuntu 9.10 &#8211; was released yesterday. As a first alpha release it is not recommended for most users, just those happy to live on the bleeding edge.<\/p>\n<p>Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Karmic development cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The primary changes from Jaunty have been the re-merging of changes from Debian, updating to the current Linux kernel, and updating GNOME to the current development release, the Ubuntu developers said in an emailed announcement yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The team said that the desktop CD wasn&rsquo;t ready for release this time so only the alternate and server CDs were to be available. &ldquo;The desktop CD will follow in the next Alpha release,&rdquo; they said.<\/p>\n<p>Copies of the alpha release can be downloaded from:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdimage.ubuntu.com\/releases\/karmic\/alpha-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cdimage.ubuntu.com\/releases\/karmic\/alpha-1\/<\/a> (Ubuntu)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cdimage.ubuntu.com\/kubuntu\/releases\/karmic\/alpha-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cdimage.ubuntu.com\/kubuntu\/releases\/karmic\/alpha-1\/<\/a> (Kubuntu)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cdimage.ubuntu.com\/xubuntu\/releases\/karmic\/alpha-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cdimage.ubuntu.com\/xubuntu\/releases\/karmic\/alpha-1\/<\/a> (Xubuntu)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=171951\">Ubuntu Karmic Koala<\/a><\/strong> discussion<\/p>\n<p><em>Tectonic<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first alpha release of Ubuntu Karmic Koala &#8211; also known as Ubuntu 9.10 &#8211; was released yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}