I recently installed the new Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop (dell D630).
a WUBI installation (i.e it runs on top a Windows installation – no partitioning, using the NTFS file system).
At last i see progress with Linux. Network Manager in this version can handle static and DHCP settings for the same nework card and switch on the fly without messing around. Wifi is a snap too.
This release seems more solid then ever, yet its bug infested. Compiz 0.78 and Nvidia 178 Driver release seems buggy with sometime artifacts and missing lines in Terminal.
Evolution is getting better and better yet in this release sometimes it stopped getting new emails from my exchange server. Quit and relaunch it and hoopla you got 5 more emails 
– this worked pretty smooth in 8.01.4 – guess something got broken.
I really like this release. Too bad OOO 3 is not part of this release but installing it is a snap from launchpad.
Sounds good. I last used Ubuntu with it’s 8.04 release. It’s by far the best OS for people who don’t want to use commend line all day. Though I’m the type of person that does, the reason why I switched to Gentoo.
Anyways I think it’s great for people to learn about Ubuntu and get away from Wintendos or Vizzta.
By: clintonskakun on November 13, 2008
at 11:24 pm