October 4, 2008 by keith
In just a few more weeks to go, Ubuntu 8.10, nicknamed Ubuntu Intrepid, will officially be released. Meanwhile, Ubuntu developers has revealed the progress of alpha stage into beta stage, with Ubuntu 8.10 Beta now made available online for testers to download.
As advised by the Ubuntu developer team, this is still a beta release and it is strongly advised that it should not be installed on production machines. Just wait for three more weeks as the final (official) stable version will be released on October 30th, 2008.
New users can download the ISO files from the local sites or mirror sites, via the link here. To upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04, you can do the following:
- Press Alt+F2.
- Type in "update-manager -d" into the command box.
- Update Manager will inform you that a new distribution is available, i.e. "New distribution '8.10' is available".
- Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.
This will automatically upgrade the distribution from your current version to this beta version (which is a good thing about Ubuntu). Enjoy!
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