I decided to beat the rush and install the Beta of Ubuntu 8.10 this evening, because you just know that when it’s officially released, the servers will be slow.
At first I was greeted with the Beta artwork, which I found slightly disappointing, as have others before me.
A massive update (over 400 MB) changed some things though. The NewHuman theme has been renamed DarkRoom, but I don’t really see other changes, apart from the name.
The dark, but non-default, DarkRoom theme
Another change is the title in Grub, which changes from “Ubuntu Intrepid (development branch)” to “Ubuntu 8.10″, the official name of the upcoming release. It’s not a big change of course, but it does indicate that there aren’t any major changes left before the official release.
But the biggest, and most pleasant change for me was the default wallpaper, which was a boring brown swirl of balls (seriously), and now looks like this:
The new, fantastic Intrepid Ibex wallpaper
It looks like a fairly rough wall, with an almost prehistoric painting of an Ibex on the left, which despite the sketchiness of the drawing almost seems to sparkle with life. While it isn’t the drastic, new look that was promised for 8.10, it’s definitely a step up from the artwork of the alpha and beta releases.
San
October 23, 2008 at 3:24 am |
I love the new wallpaper, and I have gotten used to DarkRoom and this is the first time I use the default theme and wallpaper for Ubuntu.
October 23, 2008 at 10:20 am |
Very nice abstract picture of Ibex! Thx!
October 23, 2008 at 11:05 am |
this is the spirit of ubuntu. I like it much. Good work and many thanks to painter of new, fantastic Intrepid Ibex wallpaper
October 23, 2008 at 11:35 am |
Don’t confuse people. The second screenshot is NOT a new look! It has different panels with background which gives panels more 3D look. New panels are transparent a bit, too.
October 23, 2008 at 8:41 pm |
That’s it, I’m using your blog to do a test.
Sorry!
October 23, 2008 at 9:25 pm |
Steel:
Not sure what you’re on about. That’s a screenshot of a default install of Intrepid Beta, upgraded fully on the 22nd of October. I haven’t done anything with the panels.
October 23, 2008 at 10:32 pm |
[...] As you may guess from my previous post, I like the default wallpaper of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) quite a bit. I was [...]
October 24, 2008 at 11:27 am |
[...] Definitive Ubuntu 8.10 artwork [...]
October 24, 2008 at 11:54 pm |
Very good work. Thanks.
November 2, 2008 at 9:47 pm |
[...] during the install. In the end, it installed anyway and worked fine. That’s where I got my previous screenshots from. The RC was a clean install, and I’ve been using it for about ten days. The idea was to [...]
November 19, 2008 at 7:46 am |
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Shiva
November 19, 2008 at 7:53 am |
Hi,
Very Nice.Ubuntu Beats all other OS in Graphics. It Swallowed Vista Graphics ..
With Rgds,
Shiva
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