Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Released

Published in April 24th, 2008

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. [...]

Experiences Since Installing Ubuntu 8.04 Beta

Published in March 21st, 2008

Posted by Tom in hardyheron, reviews

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Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Beta has been released, you can get it by downloading a ISO disk image, or by upgrading Ubuntu 7.10 or any of the alpha releases. In this post I’ll just be writing about my experiences with the beta since installing it. Once the beta was out, I was ready to install [...]

GNOME 2.22 Released

Published in March 13th, 2008

Posted by Tom in hardyheron, linuxnews

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The GNOME 2.22 free software desktop, which is included in the upcoming Ubuntu 8.04, has been released. Similar to Ubuntu, GNOME follows a six month release cycle. This means that every new version of Ubuntu includes the latest version of GNOME. The GNOME Project’s focus on users and usability continues in GNOME 2.22 with its [...]

Two New Themes Arrive in Ubuntu 8.04

Published in March 2nd, 2008

Posted by Tom in hardyheron, ubuntunews

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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 [...]

Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5 Released

Published in February 25th, 2008

Posted by Tom in hardyheron, ubuntunews

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The fifth alpha of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron has been released. Read the release notes, and download it. Here’s what I noticed that’s new in Hardy Heron Alpha 5: The GNOME panel slides in to the screen when you log in. This kind of transition is a great touch. The boot menu on the Ubuntu [...]

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