Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

What's new on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala?
1. New GDM Login (Though I hate it because of it's colour)
2. New Default Icons (Pretty cool actually)
3. New Theme (New Wave & Human)
4. Ubuntu One (Online Storage - 2gb free)
5. Mozilla Firefox 3.5
6. Empathy (Supports Voice and Video chat) - You can switch to Pidgin(better looking)
7. Software Center (Replaces Add/Remove)
and more...

What else does Ubuntu 9.10 comes pre-installed with?
1. Open Office - Edit or view your documents, presentations, spreadsheets (Supports Microsoft extensions like .doc, .docx, .ppt and most other extensions)
2. Rhythmbox - Play music, rip cds, share music through DAAP on LAN, sync with Portable Player(iPod, MTP), manage cover arts, update status on Instant Messengers, stream radio online, subscribe to pod casts.
3. Totem Movie Player - It plays movies...duh. Well, it can stream and play videos from YouTube and BBC (which I've never succeeded) - Try Minitube for YouTube.
4. Evince PDF Reader - View PDF
5. F-Spot Photo Manager - Edit, upload your photos to Picasa Web, Flickr or SmugMug, 23 or export to Facebook, create DVD photo slideshow and more with extensions.
6. Gimp - Edit pictures or create animation. Check out Meet the Gimp for more tips.

There are many more software which is downloadable from Synaptic Manager or Ubuntu Software Center. Try Ubuntu Live CD or USB now. (You don't have to install it on your computer, it will just run on your memory/RAM and you can decide later if you would like to install it.)
Checkout 10 things I Like About Ubuntu 9.10 (not by me)
How to make a Ubuntu Live USB?

Install Windows from Pendrive

This was something I did for my friend who was desperate and came to me for help when his hard disk failed(bad sectors) and needed to reinstall it but guess what, his recovery got deleted (the starter file) by viruses or trojans (I'm not sure of this), his dvd-rom doensn't work and his bios doesn't support usb dvd-rom but it supports usb hdd surprisingly.

Requirements:
*Ubuntu Live CD or Ubuntu installed on the computer (provided you've installed gparted (System-->Administration-->Partition Editor)
*A usb pendrive (enough space to copy windows installer to it)
*Windows Original CD (I tried it with XP, Vista & Windows 7)

Tutorial:
1. Insert the pendrive and make sure there's enough space for Windows installer (the whole cd or dvd size)
2. Copy everything from the CD/DVD of Original Windows and paste it into the pendrive.
3. Open partition editor (System-->Administration-->Partition Editor)
4. Choose to view the partition of your pendrive (on the top right of the windows manager of the software.
5. Right click on the partition where you copied the Windows installer t --> Manage flags --> Check boot --> Ok
6. Remove the pendrive and set the BIOS on the computer that you want to install Windows to boot USB hdd as the first choice(you can change this later).

Ubuntu helps even installing Windows...how great is that? Compared to the many tutorial on Google, I'm sure this is one of the simplest and fastest way of creating a USB Windows Installer (especially if you have Ubuntu Live CD, or Get one now.

Ubuntu Live USB

Downloaded Ubuntu iso? Don't have a CD and you don't want to waste that precious DVD? Well, use your USB pen drive. Better of all, use an old 1GB pen drive and promote Ubuntu to your friends and keep as your rescue pen drive.
Follow the following tutorial:

1. Unetbootin
First of all, format your pen drive into FAT32 (usually most of them are formatted into FAT32.)
Partition them if you have a bigger size of pen drive or you don't have to as it will not overwrite your files so you could always place your files in a folder such as My Doc.



So if you want to delete your iso on pen drive delete the rest of the files except My Doc. Download Unetbootin from the official website. [It is available for Windows, Linux (source), Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE & Gentoo.]
Then, choose Diskimage and search for the location of your Ubuntu iso.
Choose the drive that you will want to install and click ok.



And reboot with your pendrive plugged in.

*Make sure your bios is set to boot from USB
*It can be also used to create other Linux Live USB.

2. uSbuntu Live Creator

This is a cool USB Live Creator for Windows. Not only does this software boots like a live USB but it can also launch Ubuntu directly on Windows without configuration and installation using VirtualBox. Still wondering? Try it... It's easy and user friendly.

Download now here.

*Make sure your bios is set to boot from USB

3. Ubuntu Live CD
Using Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD you can create USB Live CD. Usually I'll use an empty CD-rw and burn the latest Ubuntu iso on it. Then boot Ubuntu Live CD and use the option to make Ubuntu Live USB from System administration menu.


4. Cd2usb


"cd2usb by hacktolive.org" a window software which is programmed to turn Ubuntu 8.10 from a Live CD or iso to Ubuntu USB Live.
To use this software is so easy, Download --> Extract --> Plug In Flash Drive--> Run cd2usb.bat --> Follow the instructions --> Poof your Ubuntu Live USB is done

Download it here.

Requirements:
*Windows PC (tested on XP and Vista)
*Flash drive with at least 800 MB of free space
*Flash drive must be in a FAT / FAT32 file system
*Ubuntu CD / Ubuntu ISO

Tags: live cd, live usb