Ubuntu Intrepid reaches Alpha 6

The dev team at Ubuntu released the sixth alpha release of Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” yesterday. While it’s not encouraged for anyone on their main system, I did burn a DVD of it today and in even a quick check it looks pretty cool. The new NewHuman theme is darker than we’re used to, a definite brown rather than the usual orange, and I can see it becoming many user’s theme of choice. I’m also loving the ability to use tabs in Nautilus.

The Firefox End Users Licensing Agreement shows up when you first run Firefox, but as I’ll post next that “bug” should be fixed in the next milestone.

You can check out the changelog to see what’s getting changed, as well as a list of known issues in this alpha release. Disk images are available for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu education Edition (formerly Edubuntu), Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Ubuntu Studio. There are also DVD images available, which can be used as a LiveCD as well as an install/upgrade disk.  Just remember this is a development release, not even a beta release yet, and should not be installed on any computer that absolutely has to work.