Ubuntu Intrepid Alpha 5

I boldly upgraded to an upgrade only a few have upgraded to thus far. Okay, bad Star Trek rip-off, but I upgraded from Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS) to Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10), and it fixed and improved so much!

PCSX finally works, but pSX still won't open. PCSX is my emulator of choice, anyway. I use PCSXbox on my Xbox, and it works great, so I may very well play PSX games on PCSX, as well. I already played Brave Fencer Musashi to check the performance level of PCSX, and I was wowwed.

The Windows driver for my wireless card is no longer necessary. The card was basically plug-and-play, so yay! This saved me a lot of time, because I have a lot of trouble getting Windows drivers installed. Well, I think the only proprietary driver I need is the one to make my ATI card work. I may try the open source alternative, though, because ATI has bad, very bad, customer support, especially for Linux users.

Current Ubuntu Hardy users may want to upgrade to Intrepid right now.
To do so, just open a terminal window and type "update-manager -d" without quotes. It will check for updates like it normally would, but it won't ignore anything. At the top of the updates list will be the newest version of Ubuntu.

The upgrade to Intrepid isn't perfect at the moment. I had to fix packages (redownload them) after installing, so I'm sure a clean installation (via CD/DVD) would be better for newcomers. Ubuntu Intrepid is scheduled to be released in October, so look forward to it, and don't give up hope for Linux!