How’s it like using Intrepid Ibex?
November 2, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under General
It’s been a quirky day 1 of using Intrepid Ibex. For one thing, F-spot seems to be opening the directories in the “Places” menu. For another the updated version of Gimp is a bit different already because it uses “Create” instead of “Acquire” for one of the menu items. I only found out about it when I was trying to get a screenshot of my desktop. =_=
Aside from that, I really liked these things:
- The eject button on the side pane of the file manager. The button is beside the removable media I connected to the system. It’s easier to use that rather than the old style of right-clicking the name of the media first.
- The status is interesting because I could easily change it without having to change it on Pidgin. It’s already on the top panel with the rest of the others.
- Files could be encrypted via the right-click menu on it.
- I liked the theme. Just that I thought that Dust looked a bit better.
I have yet to experience using Intrepid Ibex a bit more so that I could write about other things about it.

















I just installed it on my Acer Aspire One netbook, and it works with everything out of the box. With 8.04 you had to set specific boot parameters to make sure sound and usb recognition worked. with 8.10 all that works immediately.