Yesterday, the new Ubuntu 8.04 (Beta version), code name Hardy Heron, has been released. This first Ubuntu Hardy Heron Beta version, has been released after 6 Alpha version.

It is possible to download the new ISO image of Ubuntu 8.04 (Beta versione) from this link.

Yesterday, KDE 4.0.2 has been officially released. The major improvements in this release include: a better stability of the whole system; new features in Plasma and a better localisation. In addiction, several stability issues have been fixed in Kopete and Okular.


Full changelog…

Some time ago, the Kubuntu team, has released a new packed version of the KDE 4 desktop environment. The new KDE version brings a lot of new features, in particular, from a ‘visual’ point of view. If you have a Kubuntu 7.10 distribution already installed on yours system, you can try to install the new KDE without the needs to compile the source code.

Read my full guide…

Today the new release-candidate of the long-awaited desktop environment, KDE 4.0, has been released. If you want to try the new release-candidate, I inform you that packages and live-cd for some Linux distributions are already available, in particular:

• Kubutnu KDE 4.0 RC2
• Mandriva KDE 4.0 RC2 (i386)
• OpenSuse KDE 4.0 RC2

Unfortunatly, these days I have not time enough to try the new dekstop environment. What do you think about it? Following you can see a screenshot of the new KDE 4.0 (for the official website).