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Archive for October 28th, 2008

Soon the launch of Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8:10: Canonical has announced that the Desktop and Server versions of its popular Linux distribution will be made publicly available for download starting next Thursday, October 30.

As for the desktop version, were introduced several innovations. The ability to connect mobile is undoubtedly one of the things that have been treated better in Ubuntu 8:10: The attention of developers have focused particularly on the functionality of the network manager, which is now capable of supporting the 3G networks.

With regard to applications, we point out the presence of the new desktop manager GNOME 2.24 and a new application that will allow you can easily copy Ubuntu on a USB stick to have at their disposal their work environment anywhere. As a bonus, will be finally made available to users certain media of various kinds made by the BBC.

The news server Ubuntu editions 8:10 concern mainly the introduction of the new tool for virtualization Vm-builder, which lets you configure a new virtual machine from the command line in less than 5 minutes, better support for RAID configurations, full support for Apache Tomcat 6.0 and OpenJDK, and finally the new features for encryption of the private directory.