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Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Out Now!

Ubuntu Linux 8.10 (codenamed Intrepid Ibex) is out! :)

Upgrade from 8.04 worked like a charm (almost, I had to edit the xorg.conf afterwards).

Features include: New versions of GNOME, GCC, X and version 2.6.27 of the Linux kernel.

More links: Desktop features, What is Ubuntu Desktop Edition, 8.10 release notes.

It appears to be a lot faster than the previous release, probably thanks to the new kernel. Someone on Slashdot reports it even outperforms Vista (which is somewhat surprising, because Linux was always faster than Windows, but it’s nice to see its speed being noticed; as a developer I know that the Linux kernel is about 1000 times faster than the Windows kernel; for instance, when it comes to task switching).

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3 Antworten auf “Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Out Now!”

  1. ekkehard sagt:
    2008-11-14 bei 17:05

    Turns out that the X server used in the current version of Ubuntu Linux 8.10 is broken in various ways. First of all, the “radeon” X driver doesn’t recognize the monitor properly, which leads to an error message from my LCD. Using the “fglrx” driver leads to various system lock-ups, probably related to memory corruption. Removing the ATI card and using the Intel onboard graphics resulted in another problem, namely that DRI (direct rendering) which is used by many applications, isn’t working for the “intel” X driver, because it requires version 5.4, when only version 5.0 of libdri is available. This made Intrepid Ibex practically unusable for me, and I decided to give Debian another go …

  2. ekkehard sagt:
    2008-11-27 bei 00:48

    Today I had proof that the problem was related to the upgrade process that I was using to get from 8.04 to 8.10. A fresh reinstall of Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit solved the problem. :)

    I purchased new 64-bit licenses for the Fluendo Codec Pack and Nero Linux 3. I couldn’t for PowerDVD, because PowerDVD is currently not available for 64-bit platforms.

  3. ekkehard sagt:
    2008-11-29 bei 11:21

    Today I made some random observations about Ubuntu Linux 8.10:
    - The ‘/bin/sh’ shell is now POSIX conformant and not compatible to Korn Shell anymore, which must be installed separately and is a community maintained package.
    - There is apparently no Java plugin for Mozilla anymore, except the crappy GCJ plugin, which does not implement security policies (nice!). And this despite one of Java’s core concepts is security! This problem means that Web developers using Java will not be able to use Ubuntu 8.10. BTW, the Konqueror browser has - as the only browser - the option to specify a JRE, but strangely, it is not used (probably some part missing).

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