Martin Pitt has announced the availability of the third alpha release of Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”: “Welcome to Karmic Koala Alpha 3, which will in time become Ubuntu 9.10.” New features: “Updated packages; GNOME 2.27.4 development release; Empathy has replaced Pidgin as the default instant messaging client, introducing the Telepathy framework; the GDM 2.27.4 login manager is a complete rewrite; Ubuntu One file sharing; Linux kernel 2.6.31; new Intel video driver architecture; GCC 4.4 as the default compiler; ext4 as …

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