Hardy Heron Alpha 4 Released

LarryBoy writes "Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) alpha 4 was released Friday and Ars Technica has a look at what's new in the latest builds of Hardy Heron. 'Although many of the significant architectural features like PulseAudio and GIO are still in transitional stages and aren't fully functional yet, Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 4 is still very impressive. I'm a big fan of D-Bus and I'm very pleased to see it being adopted throughout the entire desktop stack in core components.'"

Comments

Did anybody else

[Anonymous Coward]

read this as Hairy Hard-on?

Re:Did anybody else

[PCeye]

Yeah, I know...sorry. My thinking seemed little fishy today

(Score: 5, Corny)

I don't like the name

[Minwee]

I still think that calling this the Happy Harry Hard-On edition of Ubuntu would have been a much better move.

Re:I don't like the name

[Nimey]

IN the long run, if Ubuntu is looking for better corporate penetration, perhaps they should look for better release names in the future. I dunno, I think "Hairy Hardon" practically screams long-term penetration.

Re:PulseAudio works nicely in Fedora 8

[Anonymous Coward]

Do Ubuntu developers do anything besides tweak color palettes

I sure hope so.

16.7 million colours to choose from and they choose the exact shade of shit.

Re:Yet to be impressed

[pizzach]

Oh! Oh! Oh! This in the gnome complaints thread isn't it!? Hey Gnome, why don't you do something about the foot? It stinks! No, I mean literally dammit!

I did good, didn't I?

Re:I'm waiting for the next one...

[mfnickster]

Irritable Ichthyosaur?

Jovial Jaguar?

Kaptain Kangaroo?

Myself, I'm still disappointed that this release wasn't the expected 'Horny Hamster.' :)

Re:ndiswrapper

[Nocturnal Deviant]

sorry but this is /. if you use vista any opinion you have is hereby ignored, the last thing you want to admit to us is that your using vista...time to pull out the torches and pitchforks guys!

Re:cart before the horse

[Evanisincontrol]

Yeah, most people here will agree with you, but choosing Vista over Ubuntu when there are perfectly good hardware options out there is, in my view, shooting yourself in the foot, putting the cart before the horse, and throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

I agree. When picking an OS, you really need to throw your hat into the ring. You've got to get your hands dirty and get your feet wet. I know they say the grass is always greener on the other side, but moving to Vista is just getting out of the frying pan and into the fire. You can't cut off your nose just to spite your face. I'd say just let the chips fall where they may, and don't cry over spilt milk. This topic is really just beating a dead horse; after all, what goes around, comes around.

Needle in a haystack. Quod erat demonstrandum.

Re:cart before the horse

[Kjella]

It's not easy to find a perfect OS. If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of those dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.