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Well, its been six months since the Release of Ubuntu 8.04 and its almost time for us to say goodbye to the Heron which has been with us for such a smattering of time. It will continue to live on in the Ubuntu servers…

Get ready to welcome the Intrepid Ibex, as it makes its appearance on October 30th.

So, with the countdown edging ever closer, what can we expect from 8.10? The official Technical Overview of the Beta release indicates that we can expect GNOME 2.24 (which is unsurprising as Ubuntu’s releases track the GNOME releases) which includes a few new features. We can also expect the 2.6.27 release of the Linux kernel, and X.Org 7.4. On the feature side we now get support for an encrypted private directory, and guest sessions (don’t those go hand in hand, so well).

That’s just some of the new features, but I cant help thinking that another new X.Org and the new Network Manager will make Ubuntu even easier and more likely to break.