Open Source Daily Journal

The official release of Ubuntu 8.04 alpha was announced by the Ubuntu development community. Ubuntu is a version of the popular Linux distribution. The alpha release is codenamed Hardy Heron with final release scheduled sometime in April of 2008. Support for the version will be three years for the desktop and five years for the server.

The alpha release can now be freely downloaded from mirror sites and is primarily for testing only and not intended for production environments yet. The new release includes some new packages that are merged from Debian. Installation CD images for the server and desktop are available for the x86 and AMD64 architectures. The latest release also includes the automatic graphics configuration feature.

Source: arstechnica.com

Ubuntu has long been in the background of more prominent open-source projects that has been silently creeping, making a name for itself. It is after all based on Linux that itself is based from of course Unix, one of the oldest languages that has ruled the realm of mini to mainframe computers in the infancy of the internet. One of the best benefits of Linux and other derivatives or flavors as they are called is the ability to strip unwanted parts of the base operating system leaving only the needed ones intact. This allows an old Pentium computer to become and FTP server making for a cheap and deployable form of technology in an old package. Continue Reading »

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