Ubuntu Release update

Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), to be released on 2008-10-30, will be Canonical's ninth release of Ubuntu Linux and Ubuntu's fourth anniversary on October 10. It will be supported until April 2010. Ubuntu 8.10 has several planned new features including a complete desktop redesign, improvements to mobile computing and desktop scalability, increased flexibility for Internet connectivity, OpenGL face browser for GDM, a GUI driven LiveUSB creator and an encrypted 'private' directory in each user's home directory.