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New Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Alpha 2, a pleasant surprise for the community. Speed has improved even more because of exclusion from the total package initialization HAL. At its base lies the kernel 2.6.32 and has improved support for Nvidia drivers.

Alpha 2 of Kubuntu features the new KDE SC 4.4 RC 1 also, the likewise-open package, which provides Active Directory authentication and server support for Linux, has been updated to version 5.4. The package supports upgrades from both the officially supported versions 4.0 (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) and 4.1 (Ubuntu 9.10), as well as the likewise-open5 packages from universe.

You can download new Ubuntu release from here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/alpha-2/