What’s new in Ubuntu 8.10?
There are only two months left for the new Ubuntu release to appear. I’ve decided to check out what is it that the Ubuntu developers have been preparing for us. Yet again, there are no huge, revolutionary changes, but some of them are really interesting. I’ve decided to write a few words about them.
You can track information about upcoming changes on Launchpad and Ubuntu.com web-site. The second one gives only a little bit of information — just about planned software updates. So, Alpha 4 has a new version of X.org server and Linux kernel. There is also a new Network Manager. It has one of my long waited features, namely 3G network support. Of course there are no big problems with establishing this kinds of connections nowadays on Ubuntu, but the developers are promising to make this process even faster and a lot easier. Currently all the things needed to establish a 3G connections, like APN or password need to be typed by the user. Average user might get lost during the configuration. The autoconfig features of new Network Manager promises to change this. Other functionalities include things like:
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