[ale] Final Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha Release

Dan Lambert danlambert at bellsouth.net
Thu Mar 6 21:27:23 EST 2008


Just updated my 8.04 Alpha box this afternoon, and I'm more and more
impressed with how well this new release is coming along. I've only
found a couple of small things that needed fixing so far, and when I
went to enter them in Launchpad, they were already reported.

Dan

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 21:12 -0500, Brian Pitts wrote:
> The 6th alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, the "Hardy Heron", is out. 
> They've passed DebianImportFreeze, FeatureFreeze, and 
> UserInterfaceFreeze. There's not much time left for bug fixing, so if 
> you'll be using this version you should give it a test drive now and 
> report any problems at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu
> 
>  From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule:
> March 13th BetaFreeze
> March 20th BetaRelease, DocumentationStringFreeze
> April 10th KernelFreeze
> April 17th ReleaseCandidate
> April 24th FinalRelease
> 
> Lots of interesting things are being added in this release for the 
> enterprise (ActiveDirectory integration, virtualization with 
> virt-manager and KVM, iSCSI support) and the average user (the latest 
> GNOME, Firefox 3, a GUI for dynamically configuring multiple displays) 
> and the potential user (reboot from cd without changing the BIOS boot 
> order, the ability to install to a file inside a ntfs partition); see 
> the release notes at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyHeron/Alpha6
> 
> You can download the iso from 
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-6/
> 
> -Brian
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