Well following on from Hardy Heron on my Eee PC I thought I would give Intrepid Ibex a spin. Ubuntu 8.10 will be released in it’s final form in October and it has just recently passed Alpha 5 stage. If you’re interested you can see it’s release schedule here.
I’m not going to mention any of the general improvements and new versions of things of which there are many. What I will do however, is focus on what Eee specific improvements have been made and what still needs to be done.
Firstly I installed it following the method outlined in my Hardy post, however I stopped before installing the ricey script as I wanted to see what would work out of the box. You can grab the Alpha 5 .iso from here.
The installation went very well and seemed to be pretty quick. So far, so good and it only got better.
Webcam : Works out of the box.
Wireless : Works, but you have to untick the Atheros drivers in “Restricted Device Drivers”
Shutdown : Doesn’t work. (Launchpad Bug #126140)
Sound : Doesn’t work for me, but I’m not sure if thats my fault or Ubuntu’s.
Boot Time : I have no real firm evidence of this but in a quick comparison between a clean Intrepid and a used Hardy on my wife’s Eee Intrepid seems to boot a lot faster. No need to moan I know this is in no way conclusive.
Other than that I am really very happy with how it went. A massive step forward as far as I’m concerned.
That’s great to hear. Unfortunately, my Eee PC is my main computer, so I can’t really use it for testing Intrepid, but I’ll be excited to try out 8.10 when it’s released next month.
I am installing 8.10 on my Eee 701. 2G Memory and I have a 16G HP SDHC card. 8.04 recognized the card but 8.10 does not. Installing updates now. wonder what will happen.
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