Ubuntu 9.10 RC Released!

Ubuntu 9.10 Release Candidate is Out. This will be the only RC before the final hit here in a few days. The RC is stable but I am waiting for the final hits before I give it a full install.

http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/ubuntu-releases/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-rc-desktop-i386.iso

Sorry for the slow updates!

Hey guys! sorry for the slow updates, I have been real busy these days job hunting, got laid off so I am keeping busy but I will still be posting so check back. Karmic almost here so watch for my review when it hits! Thanks!!

OpenOffice 3.2 Coming in December 2009

Release date: December 14, 2009

The following is a list of upcoming feature from the openoffice site.

"Features planned for OOo 3.2 (December 2009)

release motto "Performance"

• QA tracked

• Performance improvements
  • OpenOffice.org startup performance improvements
  • OpenOffice.org ODF load/save performance improvements

• Overall
  • Accessibility improvements
  • Implementation of ODF 1.2 Metadata
  • Support for Opentype/CFF fonts
  • Begin of support for Graphite Smart fonts
  • XHTML export filter update
  • Support for Quicklook on OS X
• Writer
  • Stemming and morphological capabilities for Thesaurus
  • Better OOXML import / begin of .docx export
• Calc
  • Bubble chart implementation for charting module
  • Improvements in Autofilter, DataPilot, Conditional formatting, ODFFormula
  • Allow to insert/delete into/from the middle of merged cells
• Base
  • Search and replace capabilities to SQL-Editor

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