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Ubuntu 8.10, codenamed Intrepid Ibex has been released today, bringing the following features, among others;

Better 3G support
Write Ubuntu to and install from a USB disk
Guest sessions
Gnome 2.24

. The following are the screenshots of the latest Ubuntu release.
 

Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) screenshots

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 

The example here is based on Ubuntu (Gutsy) Live CD, and using the program gpart. The first step after booting the Live CD is to add Universe repository by adding the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list ;

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted universe

and then running the following command to install gpart.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install [...]

Basicly the steps to creating a Debian (other Linux distro applies almost the same) chroot environment is to have a base system, and to mount the dev and proc filesystem to the chroot environment. The following is an outline of the process.
Create a chroot folder

mkdir chroot-ubuntu
sudo debootstrap –variant=buildd gutsy chroot-ubuntu http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/

Mount proc and dev [...]


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