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HARDY HERON RELEASED!
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) on desktop and server, continuing Ubuntu's tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source tech nologies into a high - quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntuUbuntu 8.04 LTS is also the basis for the new 8.04 release of Kubuntu: http://kubuntu.org/news/8.04-release 8.04 brings a re structuring of Edubuntu as the Ubuntu Education Edition. The education desk top and application bundle now installs as an add-on to a standard Ubuntu desk top.
http://www.e dubuntu.org/news/8.04-release
The Ubuntu 8.04 family of variants, Xubuntu, UbuntuStudio, and Myth buntu, are also released today:
http://www.xubuntu.org/news/hardy/release
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Sun looks to free up the rest of Java
Sun Microsystems is stepping up efforts to boost Java usage in Linux shops by working to remove some final encumbrances in the open-source Java platform.
By freeing these up, Java can be fully open-source and thus be packaged more easily with Linux distributions. In conjunction with this activity, Sun is talking with Linux distributors, including Open Suse, Ubuntu and Fedora to have them offer an updated version of Open JDK, which constitutes the open-source Java platform. Sun plans to offer the updated Open JDK soon and clear the last few encumbrances later.
"We're hoping to see some movement [with the] Linux distributions in the very near future,hope fully by Java One,"said Rich Sands,group manager for developer marketing at Sun, in an interview on Tuesday. The Java One conference is to be held in San Francisco in two weeks.
Source:http://news.yahoo.com
