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Friday, 8 February 2008

VMware: Hardy Alpha 4

I just compiled VMware server and have done a quick test of the latest build of Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy". Here are the inevitable screenshots:

















^ The default desktop. The theme looks like it's still an embryo in development.

















^ Add/remove, the more user-friendly version of synaptic
















^doesn't include Firefox 3 beta yet, but give an alpha a chance!

































^ Two new GUI apps: top one is GParted, a partition manager tool. Bottom one is Seahorse, a Keyring/Password manager that so totally smacks of Apple's Keychain Access utility. UPDATE 9/2/08: according to Mal, Gparted is a standard LiveCD app that doesn't get installed on a standard HDD install (not new in hardy). Credit goes to Mal for informing me.

This is just an alpha, and I can already see quite a few new stuff just from a five minute test. I'm sure when Hardy comes out in April it will be a swell upgrade.

3 comments:

TheguywholikeselectronicsandLinux said...

Nice!

Malachy said...

If you had bothered to check the Gutsy disc, you would have found that GParted is standard on the live cd. It's integrated with the installer.

Colonel Panic said...

Always room for a flame like that, isn't there Mal...I'll fix it anyway though.