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Anyone try out the new Alpha that was released this week? Seems like this version is taking forever to come out...

I guess it's coming quick though... Four released in less than two months!

June 27th, 2008 - Alpha 1 release
July 11th, 2008 - Alpha 2 release
July 24th, 2008 - Alpha 3 release
August 14th, 2008 - Alpha 4 release
September 4th, 2008 - Alpha 5 release
September 18th, 2008 - Alpha 6 release
October 2nd, 2008 - Beta release
October 23rd, 2008 - Release Candidate
October 30th, 2008 - Final release of Ubuntu 8.10

I am such a Linux dummy, I can only afford to mess with the final versions

Mike

I haven't had a chance to try out Intrepid Ibex yet but it sounds promising...funnily enough, I only just recently figured out the numbering scheme (8.04 released the 4th month of the 8th year)

Just wanted to let everyone know that Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Alpha 5 was released!

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/intrepid/alpha-5/

downloading, going to give it a shot!

Its on my ToDo list.

Any of you guys try out Alpha 5 or Alpha 6? Alpha 6 is still the latest - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/intrepid/alpha-6/

Seems the broke some stuff with Intel gigabit network devices though

Older Intel ethernet hardware which uses the e1000 driver is not affected by this; however, some hardware which used the e1000 driver in previous Ubuntu releases, such as hardware that uses a PCI Express bus, has been moved from e1000 to e1000e in the latest kernel releases. If in doubt, do not use these images, and subscribe to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/263555 to be notified when the bug is fixed.

The first beta comes out tomorrow, so i'm going to be trying that one out.

me too, I never do alphas only betas