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(K)Ubuntu Hardy Heron Aplha1 8.04 released

Within a month and a half after releasing Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10, Canonical has released their first alpha version of Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04. This alpha includes latest XOrg 7.3. Lot of new and enhanced programs are merged from Debian. This release is for testing purpose, so don't install it in your main PC. If you want to upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10, run the command update-manager -d. You can also download the ISO image from here.

Changes in Kubuntu 8.04 includes

  • Kvkbd 0.4.7
  • KDE Bluetooth
  • Kicker Compiz - a modified pager applet for the Kicker to make it work with Compiz better
  • Kicker Taskbar Compiz - a modified taskbar for the Kicker that works better than the current default in Compiz
  • support for PPP and KPPP and also the support for PPTP in Knetworkmanager
  • OTR plugin for Kopete
  • version 2.2.4 of KTorrent
  • automatic codec installation in Kaffeine
  • NTFS support

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