Only six days are left until the final release of Ubuntu 9.10 and, if you are anxious to get your hands on a very nice CD with the Karmic Koala operating system, then you should know that they can be pre-ordered from Ubuntu's ShipIt service, free of charge (a free account or an OpenID is required). It has started taking the orders a few days ago, so hurry up! However, Canonical wants you to consider downloading the release of Ubuntu 9.10 from the worldwide mirrors.

Also, if you want to spread the word about the Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) release, which will happen on the 29th of October, you can get two nice, animated countdown scripts and a static one to post on your website. Each day, the image will change, counting the days remaining until the release of Ubuntu 9.10. Choose your favorite right now from here!

For those of you who don't know yet, Ubuntu 9.10 is dubbed Karmic Koala and it will come with new artwork, the lightweight and powerful GNOME 2.28.1 desktop environment, which brings lots and lots of improvements in many areas, such as Empathy, Evolution, GNOME Control Center, GNOME Media, GNOME Power Manager, and many more. Karmic's kernel packages will be based on the latest version of Linux kernel 2.6.31, which will offer improved support for various webcams, wireless devices, and new filesystems. Moreover, applications such as OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, The GIMP 2.6.7, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3, and Transmission 1.75 will also be present in the final version of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), due for release on October 29th.

Don't forget to visit our website next Thursday for a detailed report on the Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) final release, where we will unveil more of Karmic's new features! A nice and in-depth review will also be present on our website.

The Release Candidate version of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) was released last night and you can download it right now from Softpedia.