Recent early development releases of the popular distributions provide a preview of what’s to come, while some lesser known distributions reach new milestones. A new version of the KDE desktop is due by the end of the month

Most Ubuntu users wanting to run a stable release are by now probably running the latest 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” version, while those interested in the development of the next verison have the second alpha release of the 9.10 “Karmic Koala” pre-view to play with (Alpha 3 is expected to be available on the 23rd of July).

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