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Finally ……
Yet another six months has passed and another Ubuntu Linux release is out the door.

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 technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

Read more about the features of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS in the following press releases:

Desktop edition http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.04-lts-desktop
Server edition http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.04-lts-server

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS will be maintained and supported for three years on the desktop and five years on the server.

Ubuntu 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 restructuring of Edubuntu as the Ubuntu Education Edition. The education desktop and application bundle now installs as an add-on to a standard Ubuntu desktop.

http://www.edubuntu.org/news/8.04-release

The Ubuntu 8.04 family of variants, Xubuntu, UbuntuStudio, and Mythbuntu, are also released today:

http://www.xubuntu.org/news/hardy/release
http://ubuntustudio.org/
http://www.mythbuntu.org/

To Get Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
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To download Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, or obtain CDs, visit:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu
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The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these is the incredibly fast package management (libzypp), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.3, GNOME 2.22.1, a beautiful new installer, installable live CDs and much more.

KDE 4 and KDE 3.5: The openSUSE 11.0 beta 1 includes KDE 4.0.3, which includes a number of new features, fixes, and optimizations. See the KDE4 page for more info on the KDE4 branch. To help test, see the wiki for info on reporting bugs in KDE. Not quite ready to move to KDE4? No worries, the beta includes an installation option for KDE 3.5 in addition to KDE4.

GNOME 2.22: Beta 1 includes GNOME 2.22.1 with plenty of new features and packages. Interested in helping with testing for GNOME in openSUSE 11.0? See the wiki for all the info you need.

YaST ported to Qt4: openSUSE’s administration and installation tool, YaST, has been ported to Qt4, providing beautiful styling for the installer, and an improved look for areas such as package management.

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Running 165 Linux apps (plus 3D desktop) running simultaneously? Why 165 application and not 168(nice number for Chinese)? Big deal? I believed Linux can run more application simultaneously. Can Wndows Vista or XP do that? Look at the video and you will know how fast Linux can run with 165 applications simultaneously.

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The latest Ubuntu Linux 8.04 and OpenSUSE Linux 11 is coming soon. get the script and display in your web page.

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Red Hat is proving you can make money from Open Source and Linux.

Red Hat Inc. said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit rose 7 percent as the software distributor worked to expand the footprint of its open source products with costly internal investments.

New CEO James Whitehurst believes Red Hat is now ready to continue rapid growth through an economic downturn as the Raleigh-based company pitches its free software to organizations looking to cut their tech budgets.

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