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Desktop Linux: " Dell is shipping two new laptops with widescreen LCD displays and Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) operating systems with DVD playback.

Additionally, the largest U.S. PC maker has started offering Hardy Heron on three models previously available with the earlier Gutsy Gibbon Ubuntu release."

this came in handy when I couldn't open my applications menu after filling up my hard drive

Boxee released their Ubuntu Linux port for 7.10 and 8.04 (Gutsy Gibbon and Hardy Heron) versions today. Sign up for their alpha at boxee.tv or ask your friends who have been using it on OS-X to add your email to their friends list within the boxee website.

It's an all-format media player with social ties. That means it tweets, friendfeeds, etc!

I started with Feisty Fawn, and after upgrading once Gutsy Gibbon came out, I decided I never wanted to go through that pain again.

That was, until I discovered that you could move your /home folder and all of its contents to another hard drive.

I was thrilled.

I have previously blogged about Installing Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) into a LG R405. I have now updated the system up to Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) and have some remaining issues

I have moved from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron and suddenly found that my sound output was distorted. Temporarily, reducing the volume of PCM and then increasing it was the solution I followed, as I was busy with pimping Hardy Heron.

Which path should you follow? Should you take advantage of Ubuntu's package manager and use it to upgrade your system to the latest 8.04 Hardy Heron release, or should you download a CD or DVD ISO image and do a clean install?

Common wisdom says that doing a clean install is the better, safer course of action.There may be a little extra work invo

A major upgrade of your OS is always a leap of faith. In this case my upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) to 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) was a smooth transition with no worries.

Here is a video capture of my upgrade of the OS. [Watch]

For those that have been putting off the Hardy Heron upgrade until it was officially released, today Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is now available.

The release announcement for Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" can be read on ubuntu-announce and it can be downloaded here.

With the constant evolution of Linux, it soon will be time to start [...]

Yet another six months has passed and another Ubuntu Linux release is out the door. April 2008 signals the release of Ubuntu 8.04, or Hardy Heron, and follows the Feisty Fawn and Gutsy Gibbon releases of 2007 with the intention making Linux as desktop friendly as Windows or Mac OS X.