Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex”

Published in November 10th, 2008

Posted by Tom in intrepidibex, ubuntunews

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Yesterday I finally got up to date and installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my desktop. Other than some slow software mirrors, everything has gone smoothly. It’s a good idea to download new Ubuntu releases from BitTorrent to get the fastest download and ease the load on the servers. I found the official list of torrent downloads [...]

Ubuntu 8.10 Feature Freeze and Kernel Update

Published in August 29th, 2008

Posted by Tom in intrepidibex, ubuntunews

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Ubuntu 8.10 is now feature-frozen; effort has moved away from adding new features to concentrate on fixing bugs. The final release is on track for October 30th. A comprehensive and up-to-date list of the new features has been posted on the Ubuntu Forums. Development of Ubuntu 8.10 started with the Linux 2.6.26 kernel, compared to [...]

Introducing Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

Published in February 21st, 2008

Posted by Tom in intrepidibex, ubuntunews

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The Ubuntu 8.10, the Intrepid Ibex, has been announced by Mark Shuttleworth. With Hardy now past feature-freeze it’s time to start to plan features that are being lined up for inclusion after Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is released in April. And so I’d like to introduce you to the Intrepid Ibex, the release which is planned [...]