So who's up for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex?

Ibex will be released tomorrow, and I just want to know who's interested in installing the new release. Would this be as big as when Hardy was released?

 

I recommend getting it now, before the servers basically shutdown tomorrow.

That being said, I'm not getting it lol

 

I'll grab it tomorrow when I have time. Of course I'll get it from one of the torrents though to do my part to reduce the site's bandwidth footprint.

 

Yes, fire up the torrents. Last release I uploaded a crazy amount.

 

I'll be nabbing it when the calender rolls over in about 15 minutes, and immediately burning it to CD.
About time I got back into Ubuntu.

 

I'm running the RC on my personal laptop... it'll definitely be upgraded Gotta love cutting edge.

 

...not up yet. Darnit, Canonical! Update moar.

 

I will upgrade if anyone can confirm that Ubuntu won't mess up my wi-fi drivers, and work with them. I'm doing an distrubution upgrade, by the way, if someone can confirm.(Why have they not updated yet, it's 12:07 PM GMT?)
EMZ=P

 

They probably update it only when the whole world is at least at the date, probably?

I remember when 8.04 was released I was so eager.. Now, that I've found Arch... *love* ...meh.

 

Have been very happy with 8.04, but will either upgrade or wipe the / partition and install from CD (I have a separate /home partition) in a month or so after the hoopla has died down.

 

It's up, folks! Already downloading from the local server at 1.4 MB/sec. ^_^
I've even convinced my roommate to give it a try on his older machine.

 

I have been running Kubuntu for like 3 + years on my desktop. I have 8.04 now but I think I will get away from Ubuntu and go for Debian. It has become my new distro of choice and runs amazingly well on my Thinkpad.

 

Upgrading to 8.10 now. Can't believe I'm doing this, since I'm VERY skeptical and pretty paranoid. 4-8 hours average on estimated time left(it keeps changing). I'll come back to report when it's finished.
EMZ=P

 

Figured I might as well give it a try in a virtualbox. After installing it I remembered why I switched from Ubuntu in the first place. All it is, is an easy setup of Debian with an ugly default theme and slightly different choices of prepacked programs.

 

Kubuntu 8.10 for me...NOW, slowwwwww via torrent....seed, baby, SEED !

 

My P7811FX wont shut down with 8.10 installed other than that it is great. However not being able to shut down isnt a problem I can ignore.

 

Have you tried Ctrl+Alt+Del(logs you out) then from the login menu, shutting down? I don't know how it works though on 8.10. Also, have you had any wi-fi problems? Is the networking any different, and did you loose any data(or did you do a clean install)? *Currently upgrading*.
EMZ=P

 

Will 'sudo halt' or 'sudo shutdown -h now' work for you?

 

I just read an article that mentions some of the new things that are supposed to be part of it, seems pretty good. Kubuntu on the other hand is forcing users to go to KDE 4.x :

- 2.26.27 kernel
- ability to create guest account
- better webcam support
- Better wifi support
- Improved network manager application

 

Umm...Compiz worked out of the box.....wireless(ATI, broadcom), out of the box.....
Slick theme, semi-metallic.
What can I say, I love it

 

Enough to take Mint out of your sig?, you Mint traitor
Gonna flush Elyssa for this one also...

 

Meh, loya to no distro.
Exceot Ubuntu.....
Also I switch to much to keep my sig up to date
Running this:
Windows XP - 15GB
Ubuntu:
/ - 20GB
/home - 20GB
Swap - 1GB

 

Urm, guys, I have an important question, I'm upgrading to 8.10 and I have both window managers, KDE and GNOME, though, KDE was just as experiment, and I told the installer that GNOME was my default one, or am pretty certain, but for the most part of the install(up to now), it's been doing KDE-related stuff. Even if I told it GNOME was my default window manager, will it still update KDE, or did I select KDE accidentally...?
Please answer, I hate KDE, and have no idea on how to get the wi-fi drivers to work on it.
EMZ=]

 

I tend to wait 3w - 1.5m to distupgrade my ubuntu machines as
a) the servers will be incredibly loaded, and
b) because of (a) bandwidth will be low meaning LONG upgrade time, and
c) there occasionally are VERY bad bugs in the ubuntu upgrades although I haven't seen any in the past several major releases.

Since I just ordered a MS-1651 I'm going to use it to guinea pig 8.10 when I receive the notebook. Also from what I've read since it has the PM45 + icm-9h chipset it really needs 8.10 32bit to run well plus (maybe) some extra help for wireless (Intel 5300) and onboard sound.

If that goes well, I'll be updating my desktop and servers.

 

It's downloading now. Only 4 hours to go with approximately 80kb/sec. The servers really are slow today...

 

Wow, I only got about 20-40 KB/s, but I guess I was torrenting too. Anyway, there's suppose to be 'About 4 minutes remaining' in the installation process.
EMZ=]

 

hehe, I just installed the RC - pretty much final.
And no long wait, got it at about 400kb/s.

 

up and running. browsing on ibex rite now XD

 

OK, this is fugly - I downloaded the alternate install ISO via torrent so I wouldn't have to touch the servers and waste time waiting for things to download.
So I mounted the ISO, tell it NOT to download the latest update, and it STILL tries to grab about 80 things off the Internet! No-network-access, my bitmap.

 

I'm upgrading as we very speak (or as I very type, actually).

I was concerned about download speed but I've found a server in Taiwan which is really fast. Took about 20 mins to download the upgrade.

 

Mah downloaded the Live disk and still no go on my P-7811. Guess Ill stick with 8.04. Other than WiFI not really working I am fine with it. I dont really use WiFI in Linux so it is not a big loss.

 

What wireless?

 

I hope not....it hosed my Bluetooth...

 

HAHA, well, maybe not

 

Intel 5100.

 

Umm... supported out of the box from what I've seen.
Try enabling it in Hardware Drivers if you haven't.

 

Same. I like it up to now, in my opinion, it's a lot more stable no applications have frozen, and it hasn't locked up altogether(a REALLY irritating glitch when I tried to play .AVI files with Compiz Fusion wobbly windows enabled), which is something I really like. I also like the way all my other applications got upgraded, that's pretty awesome. The only thing I miss is the old networking, having to go through a wizard every time I want to add a new connection is annoying when you're on holiday(been there done that[with Windows]). Besides that, I love the GUI tweaks, though, not a big fan on the new theme, I'm sticking with my old one.
This is the first time I've tried the Ubuntu distrubution upgrade, and I must admit, it's been very seamless!
Yes, I know none of you asked for a mini review/over view, but I guess some people skeptical might find it benefitial in some way.
Also, if anyone has any, none-linux-guru questions, in regards to changes in Ubuntu 8.10, I don't mind answering. Though, I'm still a bit of a newbie . I'll only really be able to go as far as application updates and GUI tweaks.
EMZ=P

 

I'll probably install it.

 

eh. I've downloaded Kubuntu 8.10 final...but MEPIS 8 beta 4 is working pretty great...works about the same as Kubuntu....easy transition to a more raw debian distro....but I'll boot it up...who knows

 

5 hours 59 min. to go! - Firefox Minefield's Download Manager

Sigh, If only my college didn't block torrents....

 

How would the battery life on a laptop on Ubuntu compare to something like Windows Vista? More? Less?

 

Downloading whenever I get to my 2MB connection. I'm too impatient to wait several hours.

 

Hard to say. Linux uses less resources and does not use the GPU much. Vista uses the GPU by default in Aero. However I think the power management in Aero is better.

 

For the people that've installed it, how's the speed? Any faster than 8.04?

 

For me, the first time I used Ubuntu, I noticed a big difference, though, I wasn't using wi-fi .

It's more stable for me, and no applications have stopped responding, yet. So yeah .
EMZZZ=]

 

That's good to hear..

 

The above is exactly why I'm using Mepis 8...it's pretty great so far. Uses the Debian Lenny Repos.

 

I've been enjoying all of that for a few weeks now especially improved network manager, cause WICD is awesome

 

There are serious bugs in Intrepid. I've recorded those that I've encountered here. Note that most of what I'm reporting there has been reported by other users too. The most flabbergasting bug is the one about gnome-session not saving sessions anymore. It was reported a long time back and it is still not fixed. This is a significant piece of functionality which just disappeared.

 

I can top it: I was adjusting some display things (themes, color, etc) und system settings in Kubuntu 8.10 and everything froze up. Upon restarting, Grub informed me that the kernel has been mounted as read only and thus could not load, whatever that means

I'll reformt my linux parition later today and try with a fresh install of Intrepid. Hopefully it'll work better then