I recently read an post from Jon Reagan’s Blog that Ubuntu has becoming “equal” to Linux. Personally speaking, Ubuntu’s popularity has been a major factor for consumers to choose linux as an alternative operating system for their computers in place of Windows or Mac.
Also other Linux distribution didn’t make much of an effort to promote their own respective products because, in my opinion, they don’t want to their product to become more mainstream.
Last April, Ubuntu.com has announced the release the latest version of the Ubuntu Linux distro aptly name “Hardy Heron”. Here’s the lowdown of the new release:
New Features:
- Firefox 3 is the new default internet browser
- New Gnome Desktop system (Gnome 2.22)
- New Default CD/DVD burner sofware (Brasero)
- Transmission, a newly popular BitTorrent client. This replaces the old standard BitTorrent utility
- As a new security feature Hardy Heron now has PolicyKit which allows fine-grained access control, and helps you allow or deny users access to specific parts of applications. This allows for a system to be locked down completely except to a group of trusted users.
The free Linux operating system handles big tasks like running supercomputers and ATMs. Now Linux has a chance to finally crack Microsoft Corp.’s hold on computing’s most visible domain — mainstream PCs — because of the rise of innovative, inexpensive machines.
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