Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Alpha 5 released

« 23 February 2008 | 10:29 | Ubuntu | 2 Comments »

Ubuntu has released the 5th alpha version of Ubuntu 8.04. I was going to upgrade to aplha 5 thinking they would have fixed the bugs that existed in alpha 4, but alpha 5 carries the same bugs plus a lot more. I’ll now wait till beta is released before upgrading.
Here are some highlights of [...]



andLinux - Run Ubuntu inside Windows

« 18 February 2008 | 9:23 | Ubuntu | 4 Comments »

andLinux is an Ubuntu system that runs seamlessly in Windows (2000, 2003, XP & Vista). It works only with 32 bit version of Windows. You can run andLinux without installing a virtual machine.
andLinux uses CoLinux as its core. CoLinux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows. CoLinux differs itself from VMWare or Virtualbox [...]



(K)Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Alpha 3 released

« 11 January 2008 | 10:14 | Ubuntu | No Comments »

(K)Ubuntu team has released their 3rd alpha of Hardy Heron. Here is the list of changes/new features in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron:

The latest Xorg, Xorg 7.3, is available in Hardy.
Alpha 3 includes the 2.6.24-3.5 (2.6.24-rc6-based) kernel. This includes dynticks support for amd64, bringing the same power savings already available on 32-bit systems to 64-bit laptops [...]