Ubuntu 8.10 – All Hail new Network Manager

“If you’ve been following GNOME development, you’ll also be
aware that the latest version features a new instant messaging
framework by the name of Empathy. However, the Ubuntu developers
have opted to retain the old client, Pidgin, until Empathy has time
to mature.

“There are a few other things missing on the software front,
perhaps the most surprising is the new OpenOffice 3.0, which did
not make Ubuntu’s cutoff date. On the plus side, you do get the
latest version of GIMP, which is probably a more important
update.

“There’s a very nice new utility that makes creating a bootable
USB version of Ubuntu a snap. All you need to do is select an ISO
file and click “Make Startup Disk.” Also possibly useful is the new
“Cruft Remover,” which takes a stab at removing unused packages
from your system. Unfortunately packages coming from outside a
repository seemed to confuse it. We accidentally deleted VirtualBox
and Adobe’s AIR platform. While many might consider the latter to
indeed be “cruft,” heed our warning and exercise some caution with
the Cruft Remover.

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