{"id":526,"date":"2008-11-02T23:48:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T22:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2008-11-03T12:41:53","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T11:41:53","slug":"new-release-of-ubuntu-intrepid-ibex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/new-release-of-ubuntu-intrepid-ibex\/","title":{"rendered":"New release of Ubuntu &#8211; &#8220;Intrepid Ibex&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I upgraded to  the new Ubuntu 8.10 release and found it included a few improvements. These are some of my favourite:<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A animation of an Ibex and the Ubuntu 8.10 default wallpaper\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/Journal\/ibex_animated.gif?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li>Nautilus now has tabs so you can middle-click folders to open them in a new tab.<\/li>\n<li>The included version of F-Spot has had a bug fixed so it now correctly imports comment metadata from photos.<\/li>\n<li>The eject software for my laptop DVD drive has been corrected and Nautilus now has new convenient eject icons.<\/li>\n<li>The volume buttons on my laptop keyboard now work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Things that I&#8217;m still disappointed with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cheese doesn&#8217;t find my laptop camera. In fact, \/dev\/video0 was completely missing (see <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/linux\/+bug\/255678\">bug 255678<\/a>). This is a big step backwards from 8.04 where video Skype calls worked out of the box.<\/li>\n<li>Playing DVDs didn&#8217;t work out of the box &#8211; If your going to have an application called &#8220;Movie Player&#8221; I think it should player DVDs without putting you through too much trouble. Even after I installed the plugins (gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly) the sound in the DVDs didn&#8217;t work and the frames were jerky. Installing xine is the easiest way to watch a DVD.<\/li>\n<li>The memory card reader in my laptop still doesn&#8217;t work.<\/li>\n<li>On shutdown I get a error about CIFS that causes a lockup of about a minute. It&#8217;s caused because Ubuntu tries to unmount Samba shares <em>after<\/em> shutting down network services (see <a href=\"http:\/\/whereofwecannotspeak.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/25\/unmount-samba-filesystems-before-shutdown-or-reboot\">here for a fix<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>In F-Spot, it would be nice if the Facebook export plugin automatically set the Facebook photo caption using the F-Spot photo comment. Who wants to write a caption for each photo twice?<\/li>\n<li>Tracking down why my Samba share wasn&#8217;t showing in 8.10 where it worked fine in 8.04 was quite a headache. It turns out the Samba <i>user credentials<\/i> file format has suddenly started to disallow spaces. &#8220;<em>username = tom<\/em>&#8221; now needs to be &#8220;<em>username=tom<\/em>&#8220;. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I upgraded to the new Ubuntu 8.10 release and found it included a few improvements. 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