{"id":231,"date":"2008-11-02T12:40:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T11:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2008-11-08T13:18:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T12:18:05","slug":"upgrading-to-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 &#8211; Intrepid Ibex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I started the upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on my new Dell XPS M1330 laptop.  I prefer to do a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtoforge.com\/how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-8.04-to-ubuntu-8.10-desktop-and-server\">dist-upgrade<\/a> rather than a clean install and I am pleased to say that it all went quite smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>The only minor problem I have come across so far is that I lost sound on Youtube videos.  The fix was straightforward:<\/p>\n<p><code>sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bin-false.org\/?p=45\">Many<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedoimedo.com\/computers\/ubuntu-8-10-review.html\">people<\/a> have written about the new features in Ubuntu 8.10 so I won&#8217;t re-cover that old ground but I will say that nothing in the upgrade broke my installs of Mathematica 6.0.3 and MATLAB 2008b &#8211; everything seems to just work and this latest version of Ubuntu feels great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I started the upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on my new Dell XPS M1330 laptop. I prefer to do a dist-upgrade rather than a clean install and I am pleased to say that it all went quite smoothly. The only minor problem I have come across so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-3J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}