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The hot story-of-the-week this week is, of course, the ninth release of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, officially designated Ubuntu 8.10 but far more recognizable by its colorful code-name, Intrepid Ibex. The release comes with much more than just a flashy name, though.

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The October 23, 2008 Linux Journal Live! Editor Shawn Powers and Linux Journal author (and long time KDE contributor) Jes Hall discuss the ins and outs of mini notebooks, and compare several models.

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Ubuntu Studio 8.10, a multimedia-oriented Ubuntu derivative, has been released: “The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its fourth release: Ubuntu Studio 8.10. With this release, Ubuntu Studio offers a pre-made selection of packages, targeted at audio, video and graphics users. Ubuntu Studio greatly simplifies the creation….

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Welcome to the big Ubuntu release day! The long-awaited stable release of Ubuntu 8.10, code name “Intrepid Ibex”, is now out: “The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop and Server, continuing Ubuntu’s tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality,….

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Red Hat has announced the availability of a beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3, the third update to the stable RHEL 5 series: “Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the beta release of 5.3 for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 family….

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They’re back! John Van Ostrand and his gang of idealists put on another great money-losing all-volunteer effort to get Linux users and developers to connect in Toronto last weekend. An estimated 250 people attended the one-day Ontario Linux Fest at the Days Hotel near Toronto’s major airport. Among the 27 sessions were keynotes from Jeremy Allison of Samba fame and numerous interesting sessions on everything from Nintendo Wiimote integration in X to an introduction to a group called Geekcorps that seeks to bring usable computers and the Internet to rural West Africa.

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New Linux users may be content with automatic updates and the package information shown by desktop tools, but more experienced users are generally more cautious and demanding. Experienced users, for instance, may want to assess the risk of an upgrade by studying its dependencies before they begin, or to overcome a package conflict by using versions from an older repository. Because of Debian’s long history of providing for advanced users, this sort of information is available from several different sources — from the apt-cache command, from distribution Web sites, and, in Ubuntu, with the new Ubuntu Simple Package Crawler. Unfortunately, no single source has all the features you are likely to want.

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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Editorial: Three versus Four News: Ubuntu unveils Intrepid Ibex, Fedora finalises feature list, Mandriva coordinates worldwide install fest, openSUSE explains beta release process, DesktopBSD moves to KDE 4 Released last week: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r5, PC-BSD 7.0.1 Upcoming releases: Ubuntu 8.10, OpenBSD 4.4 New….

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This week in our whirlwind tour of the Linux.com forums: demystifying your notebook’s built-in webcam, demystifying the varying states of system RAM, and demystifying the ins and outs of running a shared server. Plus a country-sized portion of re-mystifying unanswered questions, and the debut of a new feature so strange and different from the usual Ask Linux.com fare that we’d have to call it, well, mystifying.

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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl has announced the availability of the fifth revision of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 “Etch”, a security and critical bug-fix update of the project’s current stable release: “The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (code name ‘Etch’). This….

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