Technology: Hardy Heron Alpha4: A Glimpse into the Future of Ubuntu
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| Its official release is just under three months away, and Ubuntu 8.04, or
| Hardy Heron, promises some great improvements over the already user-friendly
| Ubuntu 7.10 (also known as Gusty Gibbon).
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| This is a look at the fourth Alpha release of Hardy; including many of the
| applications that are now included by default and the major changes that will
| improve stability and usability. Among these are the addition of Firefox 3
| and Remote Desktop on the applications side, and a new method for systems
| control known as Policy Kit, which enables the administrator to unlock
| certain functions for normal users.
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http://www.techthrob.com/tech/hardyalpha4.php
Recent:
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Alpha 4 Released
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| It's arriving a day late, but this evening Steve Langasek has announced the
| availability of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Alpha 4.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjMxNQ
First look: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) alpha 4
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| Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 4 was officially released today and is now available for
| testing. This alpha offers an early look at some of the features that will be
| included in the final 8.04 release, which is scheduled for April. Codenamed
| Hardy Heron, Ubuntu 8.04 will be the second long-term support (LTS) release,
| which means that it will be supported on the desktop for three years and on
| the server for five years.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080202-first-look-ubuntu-8-04-hardy-heron-alpha-4.html
Ubuntu to get visual refresh with Hardy Heron
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| This propose of hardy theme suggests to Ubuntu 7.10 use the beautiful new
| Clearlooks engine with subtle changes in the color, selected menu item and in
| the gnome main-menu. So take a look at the may be future theme of Ubuntu
| Hardy Heron :)
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http://tuxenclave.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/ubuntu-to-get-visual-refresh-with-hardy-heron/
Virtualization Made Easy In Ubuntu 8.04
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| One of the features that was introduced a year ago into Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty
| Fawn" was support for KVM, which is the Kernel-based Virtual Machine. The
| Kernel-based Virtual Machine provides full virtualization support for Linux
| when running on x86 hardware with either Intel's VT or AMD-V technology,
| which means you can run unmodified guest operating systems such as Linux or
| Microsoft Windows within your Linux host operating system.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=983&num=1
Hardy Heron Features
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| The roadmap for hardy heron has a pretty big list of features, most of them,
| although very important, are technical and a bit uninteresting. Some of them
| should have been in Gutsy but couldn't meet the schedule. Hardy Heron is
| going to be a Long Term Support release, so there's also going to be a lot of
| fixes for existing features. So without further ado, the features which I'm
| anticipating the most are.
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http://mopedia.blogspot.com/2008/01/hardy-heron-features.html
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