Anybody using Intrepid yet?

[bwallum]

Hi, We must be getting close to Intrepid, anybody using it yet?

[overdrank]

Hi and yes :) moved to Intrepid Ibex Testing and Discussion

[linux6994]

I installed Intrepid on one of my servers. It has a HP T45 hanging on it and local printing is working. When working to hit it remotely from Hardy or Vista (yuck) or even XP I could not get anything to enter the queue even though I had samba set to share and could get to a shared directory. I had to install the qufw Gui Firewall Admin. and allow inbound traffic.

Now all is working great!

[talkingwires]

Hi and yes :) moved to Intrepid Ibex Testing and DiscussionI'm glad I saw that this thread was moved into this forum. My sarcasm meter was having a hard time detecting if the OP was being serious asking that question in the Intrepid Testing Forums.

[philinux]

Hi, We must be getting close to Intrepid, anybody using it yet?


Only in a testing environment i.e. second hard drive. Not recommended for your main machine.

[alienexplorers]

SO far Ibex is running great. No problems so far. Only thing I wish I could get working is the Nvidia Legacy drivers.

[richg]

Runs fine for me. The only issue is I see on the desktop two icons for any USB device and two icons for my Firewire external hard drive.

Rich

[MadsRH]

Just installed the Alpha 6 and it runs fine, but there's still some issues that needs sorting out.

[phenest]

I've been running a dual boot with Hardy since alpha 3. And I've been running Intrepid as my main OS since alpha 4.

No stability problems. All bugs have been minor.

[hvac3901]

SO far Ibex is running great. No problems so far. Only thing I wish I could get working is the Nvidia Legacy drivers.

+1 works for me, some minor hiccups and Nvidia is not working.

[gjoellee]

I have been using Intrepid since alpha3 it is actually both faster and more stable then Hardy:) But there are still a few small issues left.... I actually think Intrepid Ibex should be a LTS version:)

[autocrosser]

Been with Intrepid from day one.....bumpy ride a couple of times, but I wouldn't ever want to miss any of the shiny goodness & fun debugging work :)

I think that it will be the best yet--my system is more responsive than its ever been--Hardy is no compare. Waiting for Jaunty to open in a couple of months from now---with all its challenges & new toys ;)

:popcorn:

[drfox]

nVidia and Broadcom wireless are not working for me, on an HP 9000 series notebook.

Larry

[1cewolf]

I've been using Kubuntu Intrepid with mostly positive results. I had a handful of issues starting up, but I've managed to resolve all but two of them on my own - I can't get the Restricted Drivers thing to work and whenever I type, very small black lines flash on-screen. The latter is less distracting than you might think and neither problem has really had much of an impact on my experience.

I made the jump to Kubuntu Intrepid to get away from GNOME's homeliness and restrictiveness and I'm absolutely thrilled with what I've seen so far. KDE 4 is light years ahead of GNOME in so many ways and this alpha build of Kubuntu is stable enough for just about anyone to try out!

[Nullack]

Pre alpha for me, I love it!

[perlluver]

Was using it, but my slave hard drive wouldn't mount, so went back to hardy.

[OutOfReach]

I've been using it since alpha 2 or 3 (cannot remember), everything in alpha 6 is just working flawlessly for me.

[Sef]

Only in a testing environment i.e. second hard drive. Not recommended for your main machine.

Unless you are curious like me and just use it as the production machine. Overall has gone well, but hiccups do occur.

[bwallum]

Wow what a reply! Thank you very much for the up to date insight. I'm running four Hardy machines at the moment so one will now go Intrepid (then the other 3 will quickly follow once I prove the ancient scanner, web cams and graphics cards sing as intended) . What a forum!

Many thanks to you all
Bob

[Gina]

Pre alpha for me, I love it!Same here :) I love trying development software - let's say an interesting journey :lolflag:

Ups and downs but working well now with all the updates - will be testing alpha 6 install in various versions shortly I hope - pretty busy with other things ATM.

[BwackNinja]

I've been using intrepid as my main system since...erm...I dunno

Everything is really coming together now, my worst problem (gtk making the screen flicker after opening applications) is fixed now.

I can't wait 'till Jaunty where hopefully DRI2 will become the norm.

[Merk42]

I realize it's still Alpha so there is room to improve, but is PulseAudio still an absolute abortion in Intrepid?

[zoomy942]

so - here is a question...

have most of you guys been doing the ALT F2 updating or just reinstalling the OS with each alpha? I ask becasue, in the windows world, which i recently left behind, fresh installs were much more effiecient becasue Windows would leave pieces everywhere.

what have you guys been doing?

[Nullack]

I usually synch to the repos and upgrade

But now and then Ill do a clean format and start fresh just to test that too

[ronacc]

I usualy just update from alpha to alpha although I may do a fresh install of a new alpha if I have tweaked things so far away from default that it would render testing questionable or have screwed things up so bad that its the only sane thing .

[zoomy942]

excellent to know. I will probably just keep updating till the real release, then i will just do a fresh start... provided nm .7 works... LOL

[Anubis]

Pulseaudio is a freaking nightmarish experience for me. I have not had a Pulse problem ever.:confused:

And no nonfree flash.

[sloggerkhan]

I'm reinstalling on my aspire one. I had it briefly, then got rid of it and now have it back. *Must HAve ThE .27 keRneL* .... so yeah. Will need to fix some keyboard issues, though.

[jett]

installed Intrepid Alpha 6 last night as it is the only way I could get Ubuntu on my MSI P45 motherboard with the ICH10 chipset. Everything worked out of the box but I could not install the binary ATI driver because I am having dependency problems when installing build-essential.

[dawynn]

My Hardy box was working fine, with PulseAudio and everything. I upgraded it to Intrepid and sound and video both broke. I never did figure out why sound broke on the upgrade, but it was fixed once I fresh-installed Intrepid Alpha 5.

Now that I have Intrepid installed, I'm trying to use it as my primary box. Legacy nVidia drivers do not currently work with Xorg, but rumors are that nVidia has been contacted and is working on a patch.

So, if you *need* the legacy nVidia drivers to be productive, stick with Hardy for now. If you can use the newer drivers (173+), or do not use nVidia cards, everything else (in my experience) is working now, at least with a fresh install. Upgrading may still be broken.

Cheers!

[motang]

een running Xubuntu 8.10 since Alpha 5 on my Eee box and the only problem I have is that network manager wants the wep key each time I reboot the system, it seems like it doesn't keep it, I added a connection myself and it still won't keep it. :-(
Other than that it's working fine for me w/o any major problmes. Compiz works, AWN works, Beryl themes work, everything else seems to good...only network manager. Actually 8.10 runs much faster on the Eee box than 8.04 did, I am loving that part the most.

[eldragon]

considering my notebook requires a custom kernel build until a patch is added to the ubuntu kernel, i dont think i will bother with intrepid for a while... unless i feel the itch to break :D

[TDragon]

I'm on it, this current release is a lot better than previous, but items occassionally crash. I'm happy to see updates to the interface, including the new network manager and better driver support.

[TDragon]

een running Xubuntu 8.10 since Alpha 5 on my Eee box and the only problem I have is that network manager wants the wep key each time I reboot the system, it seems like it doesn't keep it, I added a connection myself and it still won't keep it. :-(
Other than that it's working fine for me w/o any major problmes. Compiz works, AWN works, Beryl themes work, everything else seems to good...only network manager. Actually 8.10 runs much faster on the Eee box than 8.04 did, I am loving that part the most.


I'm having a similar issue w/ wireless on my desktop. Luckily my print server has a wireless bridge that I can use for ethernet until support gets better. Can't complain though because there is finally Atheros drivers built in to support the newer cards.

[bwallum]

Me! Speed is really good, only probs focused around screensaver behaviour. I'm trialling it on an old socket A box (266 Mhz) with 384Mb memory. Intrepid makes a six year old bit of kit look really good. All behaves as expected but kept getting an error pop up window that seems to flag non existent errors, at least, once closed the machine just carries on as normal. OOo works fine which is my main app, Gimp goes quicker, Evolution has the usual 'armpit' from elbow differentiation dilemma, Firefox really sizzles, just waiting for the official confirmation really, and we have a good month to go. Oh, and xsensors work for me now. Networking needed no intervention whatsoever, straight into the router and hooked up with the internet before I noticed. No adjustments for video or sound, BBC news streaming 'just works'. In fact all that I have tried 'just works' except the odd quirks mentioned above. Interestly I screwed the update as well, managing to shut down the terminal instead of confirming some software agreement (Sun's Java I think). Rebooted and away went Update Manager to sort me out without so much as a tut tut.

Currently trying to find some bugs, which for the average office type user I think are thin on the ground.

Well worth the splash!


sudo update-manager -d

[mwcrowley]

Minor hiccups, nvidia drivers not working for me on any kernel after 2.6.27-2.
My sansa e260 doesn't always mount. hal has some issues that a reboot solves.
If you're looking for a learning experience, go for it. Just don't use it on a production machine.

[retrow]

Things have mostly improved. My function keys have started working since Alpha 3 - they didn't work under Hardy.

ATI driver for Ibex still aren't released. This makes my app windows leave a trail whenever I move them around. The most flawed performance I've had was with Googleeaerth - it like running an algorithm with single stepping. It takes forever for the frames to refresh.

[sloggerkhan]

So I've got it running. number of bugs, reports filed, but it's still pretty decent.

[Iceni]

Been running as main and only os since alpha2 and it's been nice to me. A few bugs of course but no dealbreakers and no crashes. I like it.

[mmcmonster]

so - here is a question...

have most of you guys been doing the ALT F2 updating or just reinstalling the OS with each alpha? I ask becasue, in the windows world, which i recently left behind, fresh installs were much more effiecient becasue Windows would leave pieces everywhere.

what have you guys been doing?

I wait until the beta comes and then do a clean installation. I made sure when I first installed Ubuntu that /home was a separate partition so I wouldn't have any problem with my data.

Once I do the install, on my first reboot I delete most of the hidden files in my home directory so that new versions of applications will start off from scratch (to get the whole "new OS look"). Otherwise you won't see the new default themes and artwork, etc.

[perlluver]

I am running it again, and I finally got my slave hard drive to mount, but I had to re-format it as ext3, apparently jfs, won't mount under intrepid. Other than that is fine, no really big errors, and the new-human theme is really nice for me.

[zoomy942]

I am running it again, and I finally got my slave hard drive to mount, but I had to re-format it as ext3, apparently jfs, won't mount under intrepid. Other than that is fine, no really big errors, and the new-human theme is really nice for me.

thats interesting becasue i am running jfs on my 3 hard drives.

[wnelson]

Easiest update yet....

Walt
Tacoma, WA