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Karmic Koala Beta

It’s that time of the year again. The 10th month means lots of things: start of spring,  silly birthdays and a new and shiny Ubuntu release. And it wouldn’t be the same without me recklessly updating to the beta a couple of weeks before release. What’s fixed? What’s broken? And …

WICD: An alternative network manager

There are lots of things to like about the GNOME desktop environment. It’s free, it’s highly consistent and backup up with excellent development ethics and a wide range of supported applications. It comes as no surprise that it is the default desktop in a lot of Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, …