Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Apr 2008 18:01 UTC
Last week, the Ubuntu guys released Ubuntu 8.04, named "Hardy Heron". Instead of posting 24408 news items pointing to different reviews of this new Ubuntu release from all over the world, we decided to collect a few of them over the weekend and present them all in one gulp. I have a feeling some of you might like not seeing three Ubuntu items every day.
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I've only used the latest release of Ubuntu for a couple of days now, but I've been impressed by its stability and many of the included programs.
There were two things that really stood out for me right away...
1) PostgreSQL 8.3 - This release is a major leap forward for PostgreSQL, and I'm really glad it was included in this latest offering from Ubuntu.
2) The Gimp 2.4 - In the past, for me anyway, The Gimp has always been a tool that allowed me to do a subset of the things I use Photoshop for. The Gimp 2.4 is the first time I've ever used The Gimp and thought to myself, "I wish Photoshop could do that". Perhaps I will finally be able to dump the aging and bloated Photoshop for good. It's still too early for me to tell.
In a nutshell, I think Ubuntu provides a great desktop platform to work on. It is stable and easy to use, yet provides me with all the power of Linux when I want to use it.
I would also like to thank all the other open source teams, like PostgreSQL and The Gimp, whose contributions have helped to make Ubuntu 8.04 the best release yet.