I am much excited to see the Ubuntu count down image that i had already posted in my site http://www.webofunni.com , changed to “Ubuntu 8.04 is here”. So i went to Ubuntu site and down loaded the torrent file from their mirror, but it disappointed me, because those torrents from their site failed. So i went to mininova and downloaded a torrent from there http://www.mininova.org/tor/1352774 , i added the torrent in my deluge torrent client and went to bed. Today morning i woke up and wrote the ISO image to a CD and rebooted the machine with the CD.

The welcome screen is tittle different from the older Ubuntu releases. The first thing i got was a graphic menu to select the language, it was already in English, so i press Esc and removed that and went to the Ubuntu menu. There was two options for live cd and installation. Thats a good idea, that will help my old, less RAM machine to install Ubuntu without the live Desktop

I choose the Live cd option and went to live Desktop to try it first before installing it. It just showed the boot splash screen and a orange bar running left-right and right-left for some time and then started the progress bar, after the boot process it went to the desktop.

The new wallpaper in Ubuntu 8.04 is more pretty with a penguin created with thrown colors. I like the Wallpaper and the native theme ( Human ).

Then the second attraction for me, no doubt Firefox. Its in its new version with better Gnome integration, Smart bookmark, Less memory consumption and lots more …..

Next thing is the GNOME clock/weather bar, thats really amazing. We can know the time/weather of any place in the world, really cool hua! …

Other changes are in the bittorent client and CD burning tool. The default bittorent client in Hardy is Transmission , But i like deluge which is my 1st choice . The default burning tool is Brasero which looks better than the old Gnome default CD writer.

Now i can see more options in Firefox Plugin selector, For example lets see the Flash plugin, there are many players to select from …

All the applications are in its newest version Gaim >> Pidgin 2.4.1

Gimp >> Gimp 2.4.5 … Thats really nice to see the new versions

As usual proprietary codecs are not installed in this version of Ubuntu, but the pop up window will suggest the codec when you click on the audio file which needs proprietary codec, you need to install the codec using the package manager, as usual

So, just order a CD at shipit or download and install this advanced/user friendly OS… Ubuntu

Reference :

http://www.ubuntu.com/

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/804features/

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyHeron

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.04-lts-desktop

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download