Submitted by admin on Fri, 2008-10-03 14:42
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IntrepidIbex/Beta/Kubuntu - Ubuntu Wiki
The beta of Kubuntu v8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" has been released. This release features KDE 4.1 as its main desktop in place of the old KDE 3 (obviously, Ubuntu itself has a GNOME desktop, in version 2.24; see announcement here). Main new features:
- KDE 4.1.2
- Adept 3.0 (new, refactored user interface, lighter on resources than Adept 2)
- KNetworkManager v0.7
- Desktop effects enabled by default if a user's video card supports it
- New update and crash notifiers
- KMix support for keyboard multimedia keys
- Porting of several Python-based applications to PyKDE, including GDebiKDE, Jockey-KDE, Language Selector, Software properties, and the printer manager.
See the link at the top for downloads.