Grub2, the new boot menu installed by default with Ubuntu 9.10, can still look pretty old-school ugly if your tastes don't run with white terminal text on black. You can, however, customize its ...

Boot from the Ubuntu Live CD and choose the option to 'Install Ubuntu' when prompted. When you get to the 'Installation type' screen you'll be presented with a new option, pre-selected by default ...

Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, introduces a number of important architectural improvements and also improves boot performance, especially on computers with solid state hard drives.