Thu 30 Oct 2008
Ubuntu 8.10 just got released and here is a summary of What’s new:
- Guest Session: If your friend comes over and wants to use your laptop, you can give guest access which is completely locked down so the guest user can’t see or touch your data.
- Support for 3G data card. This becomes easy with the new Network Manager 0.7. It also makes it easy to configure Broadband connections that rely on PPPoE.
- Encrypted Private Directory. You can create an Encrypted folder and store all your confidential data there. If you ever lost your laptop, then this will ensure that someone else can’t access your data.
- BBC Content: Totem now has a plugin for BBC content which makes it easy to find and stream BBC content.
- Automated Printer Driver install. If you have a new printer, Ubuntu will find the driver automatically and install it for you.
- VM Cloning for testing. You can convert your current Ubuntu image to a VM to do any upgrades/testing. This way all your testing can happen in a VM before actually deploying.
- Kubuntu Users would find that the new release is now using KDE4.
Go here to download the ISOs or better still download the torrent: ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso.
All the Ubuntu torrents.
If you are already running a previous version of Ubuntu, you can upgrade:
Press Alt+F2, and type
update-manager -d
Now click on the Update button.
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