Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala RC released

Steve Langasek has announced the availability of the one and only release candidate for Ubuntu 9.10, code name "Karmic Koala": "The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop and Server editions, Ubuntu 9.10 Server for UEC and EC2, and the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user. Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop edition improves on the work of 9.04 to get you going faster, with improved start-up times and a streamlined boot experience."

Get RC 9.10 images here:
Ubuntu 9.10 RC 32bit
Ubuntu 9.10 RC 64bit

Full circle magazine issue 29

Full Circle is a free, independent, magazine dedicated to the Ubuntu family of Linux operating systems. Each month, it contains helpful how-to articles and reader submitted stories. Besides Ubuntu other flavours of *buntu are being mentioned in the articles such as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu... Here are the main topics included in 29-th issue:

• Command and Conquer
• How-To: Program in Python – Part 3, LAMP Server – Part 2, Virtual Private Networking.
• My Story – One Man’s Journey, and Walk With Ubuntu.
• Review – Kompozer.
• MOTU Interview – Iulian Udrea.
• Top 5 – Physics Games.
• Ubuntu Games, as well as all the usual goodness!
  

Get this and all other issues from fullcircle webpage: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/

Funny login message with fortune

Fortune is a nice piece of code that prints out a random epigram. Epigrams are divided into several categories. To make it print an epigram upon logging in the console, we need to install it first:

sudo apt-get install fortune

As per step 2, we need to add this to ~/.bashrc file
if [ -x /usr/games/fortune ]; then /usr/games/fortune -s fi

Now, every time you log in to your console you will see some funny text as a welcome message generated by fortune like:
You are a very redundant person, that's what kind of person you are.

Or like this:
You will be run over by a bus.