Intrepid Ibex(8.10)
I have been using Intrepid since Alpha 5, and since than it has matured greatly. Needless to say, I am bored with it, nothing is breaking and I have tweaked to my hearts content.
Let me start somewhere around the beginning. I started using Linux over a year ago, and joined a helpful forum, http://ubuntuforums.org. I started with Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10. I tried quite a few after that, and found my self liking Slackware. I came back to Ubuntu on version 8.04, and then installed Crunchbang Linux based of Ubuntu 8.04. Around this time 8.10 alpha was coming out. I said what the heck I might as well give back to the Ubuntu community, and I helped test it and report bugs. About 2 months later, the final release came out, my good friend Joe, sent me a CD with Ubuntu on it, and I updated to the final version.
Well, 6 months of development, and testing, led to a system so stable, I was shocked. Why was I shocked? Because in the Windows world, 6 months of development and testing would lead to a system that wouldn’t run let alone be stable. They come with a new OS around once every three to six years, and to say the least, it is broken, and usually heavier then the latter. Linux can come out with a new system every 6 months, and they try to make it faster, and more stable then the last. I would say the have accomplished one of them, and they are working on making it faster right now.
Well, I will end this now, but I will write again soon, when I start testing Jaunty Jackalope 9.04.
