![]() It certainly gives one a great reason to not have to upgrade, at vast expense, to MS Office 2007.Īnyway, thankfully some bright spark has built the required packages on a PPA (Personal Package Archive) on Lauchpad making install as easy as adding two lines to your package manager’s source list. I think for many the support for Microsoft’s OOXML format on OOo 3.0 will be the major new feature. The new Mandriva 2009 release has it and that was released last week… ![]() It’s a major upgrade to OOo and has appeared 2 weeks prior to the 8.10 ship date so I think it would make a good candidate for inclusion. It may get added later, but personally I think it is a shame if it will not make the release. Unfortunately, according to a bug on Launchpad, OOo 3.0 will not make it into the final release of Ubuntu 8.10. One thing I wanted to do today, was upgrade to 3.0. You can read about the main additions here. Ibex certainly boots faster than Hardy, the update to Gnome 2.24 is most welcome with new features such as tabing in Nautilus, and a major update to the Network Manager applet. I have been using the forthcoming release of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) since the Alpha 5 testing version the same time I built Lobsang.Īpart from a few early glitches with the Nvidia graphics drivers and some printing issues, my overall experience with Ibex has been excellent and as we are now in the beta stage it should only get better.
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