Using Intrepid Ibex

courtesy of NeoDaVe

Intrepid Ibex was released on 2008-10-30, was Canonicals ninth and latest release of Ubuntu. It will be supported until April 2010. Ubuntu 8.10 has several new features including a new default theme, improvements to mobile computing and desktop scalability, increased flexibility for Internet connectivity The desktop installation of Ubuntu 8.10 includes, among other programs, GIMP 2.6, GNOME 2.24, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, OpenOffice.org 2.4, and Pidgin 2.5. The server installation will include MySQL 5.0, PHP 5.2 and Python 2.5. Ubuntu 8.10 uses Linux 2.6.27 and X.Org 7.4. The fast-user-switch-applet has undergone major changes as well.

Clair from the new Linux user-blog writes a short review on the Intrepid Ibex.

It’s been a quirky day 1 of using Intrepid Ibex. For one thing, F-spot seems to be opening the directories in the “Places” menu. For another the updated version of Gimp is a bit different already because it uses “Create” instead of “Acquire” for one of the menu items.