February 3rd, 2008
Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" alpha 4
For a while now I’ve been keeping a close eye on Ubuntu releases, and on Friday alpha 4 of Ubuntu 8.04, code-named Hardy Heron, was released - so I grabbed a copy and started playing with it!
Check out the complete Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” gallery here!
The final release of Ubuntu 8.04 is still about three months away so the OS is far from finalized (and as such some aspects of Hardy are, well, a little unrefined) but this alpha release gives us a glimpse into what the final release will be like.
So, what’s new with Ubuntu 8.04? Well, there are new applications added to the distro and some key administrative changes. Oh, and there are also some deeper changes that users might not see but which are equally significant.
There are several new applications in 8.04. Transmission has become the default bit torrent client. It’s small, fast and does exactly what it says it’ll do. Can’t really argue with that.
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