Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha Released

December 4th, 2007

This was a bit shocking for me, Just a month and a half ago Ubuntu 7.10 was released! And now Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 1 (Codenamed: Hardy Heron)  is available for download!

Ofcourse this just an early Alpha release, intended to be used for testing ONLY, so expect it to be buggy.  Ofcourse do not replace your current Ubuntu with it. Ubuntu 8.04 final release is expected to be in April 2008.

But it is still interesting to see what’s new. Well, the way it looks, Ubuntu 8.04 looks a lot like Ubuntu 7.10 but there are two main new things, Xorg 7.3 which simply means better automatic hardware configuration. And from Debian community comes new updated packages and applications.

Ofcourse as usual if you would like to help, you can report bugs through the Ubuntu bugtracker.

[Via Ars Technica]

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