Just installed Intrepid on my dell. Started out as just a test install in an extra partition, but I liked it so much, I replaced Hardy with it.
The main points in Intrepid's favour were: suspend and hibernate worked great (please note past tense), the improvements in the Network Manager which mean I can now use it for wifi without crashing things and tabs in Nautilus.
The system is still a little bit of a jumble, as you'd expect from an Alpha, but seems steady enough to use as my main OS.
Suspend and hibernate were working on the initial installation using kernel 2.6.27-3, but is no longer working due to a suspected regression in 2.6.27-4. There also seems to be a driver issue of some sort. See my bug report on launchpad.
Network manager is advancing at a great rate. Mark Shuttleworth's ambition or having constant internet wherever and whenever is looking like becoming a reality. This is also the first time that I have been able to use Network Manager to connect to wifi without crashing things. No more wifi-radar! One issue with the wifi on the 1501 was that the drivers would not install through apt or the Hardware Drivers manager. I installed the windows driver using ndiswrapper and the guide here.
Finally to tabs in Nautilus. Gotta love it. I had a long convo with the Nautilus developers in Aug 2007 about tab support and was told pretty much that it would happen when hell freezes over, that I could write my own code if I wanted, but I wouldn't get any help and it wouldn't be implemented anyway. Great. I used pcmanfm instead. Well, I don't see any ice creeping up from the deeps and I'm using tabs in Nautilus. Seriously though, a big well-done to the Nautilus developers. They put in a lot of work and it's a great feature.
That's all for now. Back to the essay I'm supposed to be doing...
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