Hardy Alpha 1 released

[Cyrus_the_virus]

Welcome to Hardy Heron Alpha-1, which will in time become Ubuntu 8.04.

Pre-releases of Hardy are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable
system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even
frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and
those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.

Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be
released throughout the Hardy development cycle. The Alpha images are known
to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while
representing a very recent snapshot of Hardy. You can download it here:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/re...hardy/alpha-1/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/r...hardy/alpha-1/ (Edubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/jeos/releases/hardy/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu JeOS)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/re...hardy/alpha-1/ (Xubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/gobuntu/re...hardy/alpha-1/ (Gobuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustud...hardy/alpha-1/ (UbuntuStudio)

See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors for a list of mirrors.

The primary changes from Gutsy have been the re-merging of changes from
Debian and the upgrade to Xorg 7.3.

Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/alpha1 for information
on changes in Ubuntu and https://wiki.kubuntu.org/HardyHeron/Alpha1/Kubuntu
for changes in Kubuntu.

This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. For a
list of known bugs (that you don't need to report if you encounter), please
see: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/alpha1

If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop
Hardy, have a look at the hardy-changes mailing list:

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/hardy-changes

We also suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list
if you're interested in following Ubuntu development. This is a
low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of
approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other
interesting events.

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/list...devel-announce

Bug reports should go to the Ubuntu bug tracker:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu

Enjoy,
--
Steve Langasek
Debian Developer
Ubuntu Developer
http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com
vorlon at debian.org
Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS to set it on, and I can move the world.

[MetalheadGautham]

I think this is the perfect LTS release. It will have the new KDE and Gnome. Perhaps firefox 3 too, If we are lucky.

[Cyrus_the_virus]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

I think this is the perfect LTS release. It will have the new KDE and Gnome. Perhaps firefox 3 too, If we are lucky.

Yes, there are lot of improvements in the new Gnome version which i believe will be shipped with this version. But we'll need to wait till april end for this

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by Cyrus_the_virus

Yes, there are lot of improvements in the new Gnome version which i believe will be shipped with this version. But we'll need to wait till april end for this

awssome! that's in the bigining of my summer vacation! my dad may also buy me some PC upgrades as a birthday gift(31/5) I think ubuntu is perfectly timed as far as I am concerned.

[x3060]

nice nice nice . . by that time i will be able to familiarize with Ubuntu . i am giving this a try this month and hoping to learn a lot. i know a little . . i am willing to go deep to progress more

[Gigacore]

Ubuntu Thank u