Ubuntu Karmic Alpha5 image now offers home directory encryption as an option to all installing users!.We introduced Encrypted Private Directories in the Ubuntu 8.10 release, using eCryptfs (an enterprise cryptographic filesystem in the Linux kernel) on $HOME/Private. This release helped "prove" eCryptfs, and helped us identify and fix a number of issues. This new approach to encrypted private data in Ubuntu provided a safe folder where users could store confidential information, automatically mounted at login, and unmounted at logout.
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Welcome to Karmic Koala Alpha 5, which will in time become Ubuntu 9.10.
Pre-releases of Karmic are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.
In our LoCo team (Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo) we’ve been configuring a lovely tftp/pxe boot installer system that allows refurbished computers to be installed ridiculously easily via PXE booting. I’ve just completed a redesign of how it looks:
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Ubuntu developers are currently developing a centralised “App Store” to simplify the dding/removing /updating/configuring of software within Ubuntu.The name of this application called "Ubuntu App Centre"
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AMD HAS RELEASED a new version of its proprietary ATI Catalyst Linux display driver for both x86 and x86_64 systems.
The ATI Catalyst 9.8 suite updates the software to version 8.64 and supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 -- and therefore most Red Hat based Linux distros -- as well as the current Debian based Ubuntu 9.04 known as Jaunty Jackalope.
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