Intrepid Ibex is out !!!
Getting a new (well not new, actually) laptop, Dell Latitude D630, and after finished downloading the new Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, I decided to give the new Ubuntu a try.Here’s a quick review :
- Installation
Installation is fine, as with the last Hardy, it’s also an easy install. Aside from partitioning and time zone, you can probably accept all the default setup. It took me about 30 minutes to install the whole system. Booting is fast, I think it’s slightly faster than my current Hardy (well, probably because my Hardy is already bloated with additional services 
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- Devices
D630 uses a restricted (proprietary) driver for wireless card, i.e. Broadcomm Wireless. Once you activate the driver and restart the system, it works like charm (probably won’t need restart, but I don’t want to get into a hassle trying to configure it. besides, restarting take less than a minute :p). Display gets 1200×800 out of the box, and is fine. Bluetooth and sound works. One thing that bug me is the that the touchpad response is very slow, probably need some tweaking for that later. Other than that, everything works perfectly !!
- Printing
Continuing hardy tradition, printing is extremely easy to setup. Once I enable printer “Show printers shared by other systems” in System -> Administration -> Printing -> Server -> Settings, then I click new, it detects both Xerox Document Center 236 and HP Color Laserjet 3800 available in my office network. I already setup the Xerox using Generic PCL 6/PCL 6XL Foomatic driver, and it prints fine.
- To Do List
Last thing I need to configure is vmware. Back in hardy, it required some patches, which will probably the same case with this one. Also will need to check whether presentations work ok to projector.
All in all, this release is satisfying. Back when Hardy is initially released, I need to tweak some stuffs to get sound working in my Compaq V3000 series.
Let’s get Intrepid
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