Dopo molte Alpha e una beta, ecco la nuova di questo sistema operativo basato su Linux, Ubuntu “Hardy Heron”!

Moltissimi miglioramenti, frutto dell’impegno degli sviluppatori. Ecco le novità:

Included applications:

Accessories:

• Calculator (an arithmetic, scientific or financial calculator)
• Character Map (permits to insert special characters into documents)
• Dictionary (a tool to search word definitions and spellings in an online dictionary)
• Baobab (disk usage analyzer)
• Seahorse (passwords and encryption keys manager)
• Gnome Screenshot (saves images of your desktop or individual windows)
• Gnome Terminal (allows you to use the command-line)
• Gedit (a small and lightweight text editor with intuitive spell-checker)
• Tomboy (desktop note-taking application)

Graphics:

• F-Spot (photo manager)
• The GIMP (image editor)
• XSane (scan, copy and fax images)

Internet:

• Ekiga (SIP and H.323 compatible VoIP telephony and videoconferencing tool)
• Evolution (powerful e-mail client)
• Firefox (the ever popular web browser)
• Pidgin (multi-protocol instant messenger)
• Vinagre (remote desktop viewer)
• Terminal Server Client (rdesktop, vncviewer, wfica, xnest frontend)
• Transmission (lightweight BitTorrent client)

Office

• OpenOffice.org Suite (spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and word processor)

Sound and Video

• Sound Juicer (audio CD extractor)
• Brasero (CD/DVD burning application)
• Totem (DVD-Video, DivX, XviD, WMV, MOV player)
• Rhythmbox (Last.fm, radio and music player/organizer)

System Administration Utilites:

• Print Jobs Manager
• Sound Recorder
• Synaptic Package Manager

Featured technologies:

• ActiveDirectory integration
• iSCSI support
• Memory protection
• Easy to use firewall
• KVM integration

Under the hood:

• GNOME 2.22.1
• Linux kernel 2.6.24.3 (with dynticks support and a new process scheduler)
• Xorg 7.3
• PulseAudio 0.9.10
• PolicyKit 0.7

Potete scaricarla da Ubuntu-it. Il mio suggerimento è di usare torrent così da non sovraccaricare i server e magari scaricarla più velocemente.