The company Canonical has made available on its web servers Ubuntu version 8.10, code name Intrepid Ibex.

As already reported yesterday: images of CD and DVD distribution, you can download producer. You can now order a CD wyt?oczone through ShipIt. In the current version of the contents of the Gnome 2.24; appeared in the Nautilus, which has been enriched with the possibility of browsing with tabs. In addition, File Roller has been developed to support formats archives: ALZ, rzip, cabinet, TAR.7Z. X. Org 7.4, which was included in the release brings many improvements in handling tablets, keyboards and mice. Eliminates any confusion with the well-known version of Ubuntu 8.10 RC associated with the binary drivers from nVidia, can not run driver in the distribution of X. Org 7.4. A new addition is the mode to restore the settings in case of improper configuration of xorg.conf. Canonical decided to include a picture of a simple tool to install the system on portable drives, which can be used to run Ubuntu Live mode, and the installation disk.

You won the opportunity encrypt its directory assistance tools ecryptfs-utils. Expanded applet Fast User Switching to be signed in to your computer to your guest, a user does not have the right to browse the folders home. Applet user switching has also been integrated with Internet communicator Pidgin (other programs in the future will be able to be integrated with them by their authors). Totem media player plugin has been integrated by the BBC podcast service. This is the second extension of that type - in the past, users of the Totem have been given an opportunity to watch movies on YouTube.

The Ubuntu package NetworkManager appeared in the version 0.7 that was released in July. It allows the configuration of connections with 3G networks (GSM / CDMA), working with several network devices at once. There is also a Samba version 3.2. It enables cooperation in clusters of servers and networks based on IPv6.

Canonical also prepared a version of its server system. It differs primarily Unidentified, which has been adapted to work in virtual machines. Ubuntu Server Edition, you may also serve as host for VMs. Ask hiperwizorami Xen and KVM will facilitate a new tool - VM-Builder, capable of dynamically allocate cores, and change the amount of memory, depending on the needs of a particular virtual machine. Began support for technology-related Java: Apache Tomcat 6.0 and OpenJDK and packages responsible for the security of data on a server: SpamAssassin and ClamAV. Responding to the users of the company were given the Red Hat management services in the system through the service (as it is in RHEL). Administrators greater quantity of servers based on Ubuntu will be able to use the service Landscape, copyright project company Canonical, which allows you to manage servers from a web page. Server edition system will be supported for 18 months.

Along with the premiere of Ubuntu appeared to be modified versions, based on alternative environmental image. Kubuntu 8.10 will be based on the default desktop environment KDE version 4.1.2. Third version of the popular environment will cease to be officially available. In addition, updated graphic Adept package manager to version 3.0, Network Manager for the port of KDE and improved manager notifications of updates. On the other hand, in the Xubuntu 8.10 received the Xfce desktop environment, version 4.4.2. In addition, the upgrade has been subjected to popular Abiword word processor, which allows deposition Gnumeric spreadsheet inside a document, makes it easy to work in real time several people on the same document, and you can open documents directly from network resources (through samba, ftp or ssh).

Ubuntu release was accompanied by several zgrzytów. Will miss the official packages recently issued OpenOffice 3.0, which, inter alia, the possibility of reading documents from Microsoft Office 2007. OpenOffice 3.0.1 according to the announcement should appear in the repositories as backport. In last-minute withdrawal of client Ekiga VoIP 3.0, which detected the error, which prevented the inclusion in the standard installation. A revised version can be downloaded from repositories of distribution. The default theme, despite the dissatisfaction of many members has not been significantly modified. Mark Shuttleworth assumes that the next version of Ubuntu, whose code name is Jaunty Jackalope, emphasis will be placed on optimizing and upgrading the existing system already in options, as well as the launching of the system itself. Jaunty Jackalope stable version is expected in April 2009.

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