• Core 2 Duo T8100 (2.1 GHz)
• Core 2 Duo T8300 (2.4 GHz)
• Core 2 Duo T9300 (2.5 GHz)
• Core 2 Duo T9500 (2.6 GHz)
• Core 2 Extreme X9000 (2.8 GHz)

Although Intel will take orders for these models until June 24th, the distribution of both boxed and tray versions of the products will end respectively on October 23th, 2009 and September 24th, 2010.

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Built on the Linux core version 2.6.27, Fedora 10 comes with two desktop options to choose from: GNOME 2.24 and KDE 4.1. Also, the latest version of Firefox 3 is downloaded automatically.

The latest version of Fedora includes fixes for PulseAudio. As for the PA Sound Server which appeared first with Fedora 8, has its management capabilities of sound files and their distribution to more than one device improved significantly. Network Manager supports connection sharing (especially 3G). Package management system RPM has been revised, cleaning the code base and improving the maximum file size to 4 GB and supporting it with PackageKit. Additionally, PackageKit has been combined with GStreamer, adding the ability to find codecs for multimedia files which do not have any. The distribution’s boot time has been reduced by 10% and a Plymouth graphical interface which does not need X server has been developed. Surely Plymouth does not run on every hardware, but it has a text-based interface as a backup.

You can download Fedora 10 at Fedora Project site.

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The introduction tour of Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition naturally starts with desktop improvements. E-mail and personal information management tools are developed around Evolution. The instant messaging client is Pidgin, which can connect to various protocols simultaneously. The standard browser is Firefox 3. F-Spot photo-manager presents advanced features. In the multimedia side Rhythmbox and Totem show off. Multimedia features like listening and categorizing Internet radios, access to free music trading services like Magnatune and music broadcasting on local network are standardized in Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition. BBC content comes freely with Ubuntu.

The office package is OpenOffice. Accessibility is provided with conversation synthesis and application events reactions for people with disabilities by Orca Accessory Technologies. The best of all is the third party programs are installed with a single click: there is no need to go on a hunt for third party programs.

Ubuntu Server Edition 8.10 has some improvements too. The gcc compiler comes with security strengthening features and warnings on. The Dell contributed DKMS facilitates the option of having the present kernel drivers rebuilt when there are new cores available. Most of the network services are compiled as Position-Independent Executables(PIE), so that they can take advantage of the ability of randomizing the files’ footprints on the memory. In this way, some possible security leaks are made harder to exploit.

There are two additions to installation profiles: Tomcat Java Server and Virtualization Host. Main software depots have additions like Sun’s OpenJDK 6, Apache Tomcat 6, ClamAV and SpamAssassin. Also, the services that come with ufw (uncomplicated firewall) can report to the firewall about their configurations and the system administrator can make the necessary adjustments to the firewall with a single command like “ufw allow <service name>”.

Simultaneously, Kubuntu and Xubuntu’s new versions are also distributed with the release of Ubuntu. Kubuntu now comes with KDE 4.1.2. You can download Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex here. For Xubuntu click here, and Kubuntu here.

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