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What's up with the Intrepid Ibex
The ibex is type of wild mountain goat with large recurved horns that are
transversely ridged in front, found in Eurasia, North Africa, and East
Africa. That is the Wikipedia
definition. For the Ubuntu community, the Intrepid Ibex is the next
version of the operating system, and the topic under discussion at the
recent Ubuntu Developer
Summit (UDS) in Prague.
There are a number of YouTube videos from the UDS, with Mark Shuttleworth and others talking about Intrepid Ibex and related topics. Mark's two part video covers the various versions of Ubuntu from the server to the platform specific remixes, to collaboration with other distributions and upstream developers, and more. The Intrepid Ibex, scheduled for release next October, will also be known as version 8.10 - 8 for the year and 10 for the month of its release. With the Hardy Heron, Ubuntu's second LTS (Long Term Support) release out the door, the Ibex marks the beginning of a new LTS cycle. As such, it is likely to be a bit wild and woolly. A time to bring in new technology and experiment with possibilities. There will be plenty of time later for stabilizing the next LTS release, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, scheduled for release in April 2010. This UDS had several tracks some reports are available:
Cody Somerville, leader of Xubuntu, tells us Why Xubuntu Intrepid is going to rock. The Xubuntu Intrepid Strategy document contains a clear mission statement and takes a deeper look at this variant:
Xubuntu will provide (The goal of Xubuntu is to produce) an easy to use
distribution, based on Ubuntu, using Xfce as the graphical desktop, with a
focus on integration, usability and performance, with a particular focus on
low memory footprint. The integration in Xubuntu is at a configuration
level, a toolkit level, and matching the underlying technology beneath the
desktop in Ubuntu. Xubuntu will be built and developed autonomously as part
of the wider Ubuntu community, based around the ideals and values of
Ubuntu.
Kubuntu fans will find this entry in Jonathan Riddell's blog of interest. "Kubuntu Intrepid Version makes the decision to move to KDE 4 by default (anything else is history). KDE 3 libs will still be available for applications without a KDE 4 version, but the desktop won't be. It's a good time to move to KDE 4 since Intrepid is intended to be a more cutting edge release." The Kubuntu Intrepid wiki takes a look at some specific design goals the KDE variant. Some of the defaults for Kubuntu have been defined.
We will remove sounds for actions. Actions do not need to attract the
user's attention. We would like a new, shorter, login sound, Scott Wheeler
has volunteered to make one.
And so on.
At the 4.1 release we will consider which default Plasmoids to include. The Desktop Plasmoid should be on by default. Other goals for Intrepid are still somewhat fuzzy, which means there is still time to make proposals for what you want. If you run Ubuntu (or variant thereof) but it's not quite what you want it to be, get involved and help make it better. (Log in to post comments)
Let's take a shot... Posted Jun 5, 2008 16:17 UTC (Thu) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link] Jazz Jackrabbit?
What's up with the Intrepid Ibex Posted Jun 5, 2008 21:48 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]
I want to know if this release is going to be accompanied by a co-branded wine, and, if so, if
it will be the first Linux distribution to do that.
("Goats do Roam", referenced in the announcement, is a well-known wine, which is, fittingly, a
South African blend)
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