Ubuntu 8.10: Tour Screenshot

Recently released Release Candidate of the latest version of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), the final release is very close, so look at the screenshots - it is almost to see the upcoming system! To begin with, let's see which versions of programs in this system will stand out of the box:

· Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
· OpenOffice.org 2.4.1
· The GIMP 2.6.1
· F-Spot 0.5.0.3
· Pidgin 2.5.1
· Brasero 0.8.2
· Transmission 1.34
· Rhythmbox 0.11.6
· Ekiga 2.0.12
· Evolution 2.24.1
· Nautilus 2.24.1
· Vinagre 2.24.0
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(In the final release, Pidgin will be version 2.5.2, and Gnome will be 2.24.1)

Under the hood of this car, the gears shine proudly:

· Kernel 2.6.27-7 (based on Linux kernel 2.6.27.2)
· X.Org 7.4 and X.Org Server 1.5.2 (with automatic configuration for keyboard and mouse)
· Network Manager 0.7 (with 3G support)
· Apache 2.2
· PostgreSQL 8.3
· PHP 5.2.6
· LTSP 5.1
· GCC 4.3.2
· Glibc 2.8
· Python 2.5

Particular attention in this version the development team paid to work with WiFi, yet the current trend shows that this is a very important indicator. Even earlier, a fresh look will appear in the eyes of a fresh system user, and a little later, if developers are to be believed, he will notice the optimization of this graphic system itself. Everything sounds great!

Of the new system utilities - System Cleaner (system-cleaner-gtk), it will help to clean the system from old packages that are no longer supported by the system. The same utility will allow you to find problems in the OS, for example - an error in the / etc / fstab entry. The second small, but convenient novelty is the utility Create a USB startup disk , with its help you can easily create an installation USB disk with Ubuntu.

It's nice that the team keeps up with the times. With the huge increase in demand for netbooks, the mere appearance of phrases like “how to install linux on eee” in Google’s popular queries should have made Canonical programmers think.

Here is a short screenshot of the new system tour:

( Link ) (Sorry, I don’t have much time to post, so I don’t have time to adjust the size and put the photos on Habr ... and upload pictures and make a gallery in a blog - four clicks)

You have noticed, probably not quite familiar to Ubuntu wallpaper , and a slightly modified theme.

Among the innovations Gnome - such interesting, but one-sided things, like:

• Mounting archives! Now, any archive can be mounted (using the right-click menu in the menu) as a disk and working with it accordingly, instead of placing it somewhere. In my opinion, one of these functions, without which I lived and would have lived quietly further, but if you get used to it, it is convenient and pleasant.
• Again about the archives, but minor improvements appeared in the archive creation window : archives can be (ugh, two lines - three times the word “archive”!) Protected with a password, encryption, and besides archives (4!) Can be divided into pieces.
• Guess what - the archive unpacker will now show what is happening instead of the soulless progress bar.
• Some new desktop effects

PS Since we started talking about archives, let's finish this topic with the onsol program to extract these archives (Via runix.org ).

PPS For screenshots and info thanks to Softpedia .