A Very Special Heron

The Operating System Ubuntu 8.04, or "Hardy Heron" is released today as a final product, stable enough for end-users to use, and the imporvements are impressive. Among them we find encryption, a windows installer, firewall software and a fine-tuned authorization control.

Linux enthusiasts and OS adventurers have been waiting long for this final moment. Perhaps testing the beta version, and many contributing to make it a solid product. What we have is a free operating system with endless possibilities and solutions. The Open source community welcomes the newest Ubuntu release.

The perhaps most exciting new feature of ubuntu is the possibility of installing it directly under windows. Wubi, as the software is called, gives the user this possibility when inserting the ubuntu disc when running windows. It will make ubuntu available as a program under the Microsoft OS. Great for people who want to test out linux, but as for running it regularily the performance is somewhat decreased because the computer has to run windows before it can startup the linux distribution.


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Ubuntu has now a built-in encryption feature that makes it possible to guard your files from KGB-agents and other sniffy folk, aswell as the newest bleeding edge beta version of firefox, which for my case is still severely unstable, but has some nice additions to it and is a bit faster.
- But the fabulous browser Opera makes surfing a dream again.
Under the systems tab, you can find authorizations, where application-level access can be set for users on the system. Great for machines with more users and especially if some users are fond of changing things.


The new release is available in a standard, Gnome version, a KDE, XFCE and a gobuntu edition.
Note: Expect huge traffic on download servers. Bittorrent would be a decent alternative.