Ubuntu 8.10 'Intrepid Ibex' Beta Screenshots Tour

Although I'm a KDE fan, after the last Kubuntu release (8.04 - LTS) I was a little disappointed, so I decided to try Ubuntu 8.10, which is going to be the next release of this wonderful distribution, codenamed 'Intrepid Ibex'. Ubuntu is definitely the most popular Linux distribution, also occupying the top position at page hits on Distrowatch.com for almost 4 years now.

Below are screenshots I took after I installed Ubuntu 8.10 Beta on a separate partition of 10 GB, on an my Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz PC with 1 GB DDRAM2. I took all the screenshots leaving default appearance and settings in applications, including the wallpaper, after I installed the nVIDIA restricted drivers and enabled Normal effects in System -> Preferences -> Appearance. Resolution is 1280x1024. I also performed a full apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and restarted the computer before taking the screenshots, so the installation is more recent than the actual beta release.

Intrepid Ibex comes with GNOME 2.24, Firefox 3.0.3 and OpenOffice.org 2.4.1. The installed system occupies 2.4 GB after dist-upgrade and apt-get clean.

Default desktop

Rhythmbox music player

Totem movie player

Nautilus file manager

OpenOffice.org Writer word processor

Tomboy notes-taking application

GNOME Terminal shell-like application

Firefox web browser

Ubuntu Help Center

Pidgin IM and IRC client

Appearance properties

Brasero CD/DVD burner

Character Map

Visual effects

I can't say it behaves very well until enabling the desktop effects, below is a screenshot showing artefacts while fetching graphically the nVIDIA driver:



I found a bug here and there, especially regarding artefacts at drawing window decorations, but the final version did not arrive yet so no comments regarding those. I just hope for a good release.

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