Next Ubuntu Release ready for beta.

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
by DoubleB

Ubuntu has announced the next edition of its Linux Operating System Ubuntu 8.04 will be ready for a beta release March 20. This release will be named Hardy Heron and will have long term support (LTS) which means it will be supported for 3 years after the initial release. The last LTS release was Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake. The final release of Ubuntu 8.04 is scheduled for April 24. The new distro will use the 2.6.24-11.17 Linux kernel, the latest Gnome desktop 2.22 just released, Firefox 3, OpenOffice.org 2.4 and Thunderbird 2.12. So look foward to April for an Ubuntu release with the newest Linux Applications around.