[General] 10 + 2 things you’ll get with Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex”

[Burhan Khalid]

Bashar Al-Abdulhadi wrote:
> a nice find, Originally from: 
> http://fabrizioballiano.net/2008/07/19/10-2-things-youll-get-with-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex/ 
> :)

> *3. 3G networking <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/3GNetworkingIntrepid>*
> Title says it all, Intrepid will have built-in support for 3G networking 
> with the new NetworkManager <http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/>.

This is already available in Hardy via ppa repos; and is thanks to 
Fedora 9's development on NetworkManager.

I'm already running this on my laptop.

> *7. font selector <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/font-selector>*
> Fontconfig offers a variety of font related settings, which can 
> currently only be modified by hacking a XML file together. Intrepid will 
> have a GUI for this task, taking common settings like font ordering, 
> antialiasing, hinting and embedded bitmaps into account, as those 
> settings vary greatly depending on different users’ preferences.

Thank god, as the default rendering of fonts is absolute crap.


Regards,
--
Burhan Khalid
Signal > Noise

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