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Ubuntu 8.04 Released

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Posted Apr 26, 2008
Daily Tips
Operating Systems

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Jason Faulkner is the man who brings you our daily tips. He is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ubuntu users (or perspective users) take note 8.04 was just released. This release is named ‘Hardy Heron’ has long term support (LTS), meaning this desktop release will be supported for 3 years. Ubuntu 8.04 offers many attractive features, including (the somehow “important”) eye candy enhancements.

Having used the first LTS release of Ubuntu myself (6.06) exclusively for a year, I see no reason to believe the ’successor’ will not be just as reliable. The only odd thing I see is the OS ships with a beta version of Firefox 3. This seems strange as I would think the developers of an LTS release would opt for the ‘tried and true’ release of Firefox.

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  1. Greg Zeng said:
    5/1/2008 11:16 am

    Unlike other LINUX op systems, Ubuntu can read-write Vista’s new version of NTFS (as well as XP’s.

    However can this Ubuntu handle compressed Vista NTFS files/ folders/ drives? Inbuilt NTFS-Compression is needed for limited HDD or Flash-drive storage.

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