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Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” has been released!
What’s new in 8.04
Press Release
Download and Install from a CD:
Download CDs from this page, or from Ubuntu’s download page (seems to be down at the moment). Scroll down for the BitTorrent downloads, will be much faster while everyone else is trying to download the CDs.
Official CD artwork is […]
If you’ve been running the Ubuntu 8.04 Beta, you’ll have noticed that the default theme has been changed from the new Human-Murrine back to the same Human theme from previous releases.
Many users complained when the Human-Murrine theme was completely removed from the repositories. Now it’s back to being installed, but not the default. You can […]
Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 6 is the final alpha release for Ubuntu 8.04. Let’s look at three of the new features: the new theme, Screen Resolution utility, and relatime.
The new Murrine-Human theme from Alpha 5 has been significantly tweaked. The theme’s colour is now a lighter orange. The shaded menus are gone, and buttons have […]
KDE 4.0.2 has been released, as well as packages for Ubuntu. KDE 4.0.2 is the second bugfix release since the release of KDE4.
I updated my existing KDE4 installation to this release from the previous one, there were about 100 MB of packages to download. Read Five Steps to Install KDE 4.0 in Ubuntu 7.10 if […]
It’s not the complete redesign that was planned and canceled, but two new themes have been added to Ubuntu 8.04. The new GTK themes are Human-Murrine and Human-Clearlooks. The Human icon and Metacity themes are unchanged. Currently, Human-Murrine is the default in up-to-date Ubuntu 8.04.
The most distinctive feature of Human-Murrine is shaded application menu bars. […]
