Development Release: Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 3

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 the default file system; GRUB 2 as the default bootloader….” Read the release announcement and release notes for additional information. Download (SHA256): karmic-desktop-i386.iso (692MB, torrent), karmic-desktop-amd64.iso (694MB, torrent). Also released today were alpha 3 CD images for Kubuntu 9.10 (download, release notes), Xubuntu 9.10 (download) and Ubuntu Studio 9.10 (download).