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Ubuntu 8.10 Review - Desktop Emphasis on the Intrepid Ibex

Oct.31, 2008 in linux

Introduction
My previous experience with Ubuntu has been good. 8.04.1 did very well for me, even if I finally decided to go with SUSE 11.0 as my main Linux distro.
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was a non-LTS release. People were expecting big changes, though perhaps a little irrationally. Nevertheless, the list of new features is given in [...]

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Ubuntu 8.10 just around the corner

Oct.28, 2008 in linux

Ubuntu 8.10 is just two days away now. And early RC reviews and previews are pouring in.
I have not tested it myself, but I will just give an overview of what the reviewers are saying around the internet, in bullet points:

Latest version of Gnome adds excellent new features, the top favourites being the tabbed Nautilus [...]

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