As you can see from my previous posts, I like to review each version of Ubuntu sooner or later.Now, this is quite early, as we are only a month old into Hardy Heron the latest offering of Ubuntu from Canonical. This thing runs like a complete treat to the eyes of the user and you can easily make out that this has been made to make linux reach out to the desktop users, who want a virus free but user friendly interface.
Now, whats so special about this version.Well I feel the best thing about the server is inbuilt KVM support and incorporation of JeOS, a version with which you can make virtual appliances using VMware.It has firefox 3 beta 5 installed looks good.
However,desktop has all the offerings similar to Gutsy.The number of free and third party software have increased in the repositories.There was a major security vulnerability discovered in the Open SSL key but that was fixed, a fix was provided as a part of the update package.
Now,about the device support, its really amazing as the case with all other distros. I even tried Kubuntu, and a remixed KDE 4 version of Kubuntu, but KDE 4 still has sometime before it gets fully adopted.At least thats what I feld after using it. The management of desktop is much beautiful and easy with the plasma and widget fundamantals, a completely new concept in the world of desktops, but loses on stability and is still buggy.In sometime however,it is going to rule the desktops for sure.
I think my discussion went off the track to review KDE4 instead of Hardy.So things are much the same now, except for educational and accessibility software.Edubuntu now comes as an add on instead of a separate distro and accessibility things like Orca comes pre-installed, you just need to configure it.
The screenshot shows the preference settings for accessibility software.All in all this is a great distro for desktop users.
