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Thu, 6th November 2008
New Ubuntu 8.04 Beta Refines The Linux Desktop
Canonical, makers of the favourite Ubuntu Linux, hit free a beta of “Hardy Heron,” the incoming edition of Ubuntu.
Hardy Heron, which is Ubuntu edition 8.04, brings an updated UNIX Kernel, a newborn edition of the Gnome Desktop, Pulse Audio hold and a sort of another improvements.
Other pleasant newborn features allow Wubi, a single-click Ubuntu installer for Windows, which eliminates artefact hassles same round analysis and another details. Wubi allows you to establish and uninstall Ubuntu (or some UNIX variant) meet same some another Windows application.
The beta also brings upgrades for most of the unstoppered maker applications that board with Ubuntu. Perhaps the most celebrity is Firefox 3 beta 4, which looks such more same a Gnome covering thanks to autochthonous GTK2 buttons and widgets.
Although I haven’t had instance for an actualised install, I did verify the springy CD for a aerobatics and was quite bright to wager that the newborn realistic files grouping hold for Gnome entireness without a gait — you crapper today meliorate items from the trash, as substantially as disrupt and modify enter dealings in Nautilus (yes, that should hit been there from the beginning).
Ubuntu 8.04 beta 1 also features a newborn edition of Xorg, which offers such meliorate auto-configuration options for environment up your monitor. A newborn Screen Resolution programme also makes it easier to dynamically modify your concealment partitioning and curb a ordinal or outside monitor.
I’ve been serendipitous in that Ubuntu has never had some problems with my laptop concealment straightforward discover of the box, but if you’re ever struggled when disagreeable to enter to an outside monitor, hopefully the stylish edition of Xorg module cipher those issues.
For those that favour the KDE desktop, the newborn Kubuntu 8.04 has also been free and features KDE 4, with the Dolphin enter trainer and another KDE 4 goodness. If you’re not primed to attain the leap, KDE 3 is ease included and today has the Compiz screen personalty enabled by default. The stylish versions of Amarok and another KDE apps are also included.
While most of the newborn features in Hardy Heron are welcome, I was inferior than impressed by the UNIX edition of Transmission, which is the newborn pick bittorrent app in Ubuntu. I savor Transmission on the Mac, but alas the UNIX edition isn’t quite up to speed. Naturally you crapper ever switch it discover for the computer of your choice.
The another dissatisfaction is that the field upkeep of the Ubuntu thought designed for Hardy Heron has been pushed backwards and won’t come until Ubuntu 8.10 (scheduled for promulgation sextet months after Hardy Heron).
Still, despite a pair of secondary quibbles, Hardy Heron is a rattling pleasant upgrade. O
Keep in nous that this is ease a beta and not meant to be utilised in a creation environments. The test promulgation of Hardy Heron is regular for Apr 24 2008, but those selection to intercommunicate warn to the twine crapper clutch the stylish ISO images from the download tender — here for Ubuntu and here for Kubuntu.
[Screenshot manner of Canonical]
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