Ubuntu 8.10 Charges Up the Mountain

The hot story-of-the-week this week is, of course, the ninth release of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, officially designated Ubuntu 8.10 but far more recognizable by its colorful code-name, Intrepid Ibex. The release comes with much more than just a flashy name, though.

Among Intrepid’s shiny new packages are upgrades to core portions of the operating system including the kernel itself, which has been updated to the 2.6.27 release. The latest version of X.Org, 7.4, which appeared in September after months of repeated delays, is included, and boasts improved hot-plugging for keyboards, mice, and other input peripherals, a failsafe mechanism to provide better troubleshooting for startup glitches, and for many users, the end of the xorg.conf configuration file.

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