The Heron is on the way. This release looks like it’s going to be big! Lots of new things, like Xorg 7.3 with an improved GUI for setting up resolution and refresh rates on more than one monitor. A new Kernel (2.6.24), new Gnome (2.22) with GVFS backend so you can do things like restore from trash and undo things you didn’t really want to do, finger grained user control through PolicyKit, PulseAudio integration, and FireFox 3 beta 4!
Also featured, integrated BitTorrent client Transmission, Vinagre VNC for smoother remote control, Brasero for CD/DVD burning, a neat world clock applet, Inkscape by default, fully integrated KVM for virtualization, iSCSI support, a new firewall, better memory protection and. . . Wubi!
Wubi is pretty cool. It allows you to install Ubuntu on your Windows machine like an application. No dedicated partition, easy removal, no mucking about with the Windows boot loader, and will be sitting on the root of the install CD as wubi.exe. Neat!
I’ll be posting from 8.04 beta in a bit, still have about an hour and a half of downloading and installing to go.
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