Ubuntu announced its 8.04 (Hardy Heron) release almost 5 years ago, on April 24, 2008. As with the earlier LTS releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 5 years. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 8.04 will reach end of life on Thursday, May 9th. [...]

Last week I shared how the open-source R500 driver can compete with the legacy Catalyst Linux driver on an old Intel laptop with ATI graphics, but how has the performance for other areas of the system changed with the latest Ubuntu Linux code? In this article are benchmarks from other areas of this Core Duo [...]

While recent testing has shown how Ubuntu 12.04 LTS KVM/Xen/VirtualBox virtualization compares between Intel’s Sandy Bridge and AMD’s Bulldozer platforms, in this article is a different look at the KVM virtualization performance of the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating system. In this review is a look at the KVM virtualization performance of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [...]

The desktop version of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS has now officially reached its end of life as previously reported. From 12 May 2011 (yesterday), no new updates, including security updates and critical fixes, will be available.

Ubuntu announced its 8.04 Desktop release almost 36 months ago, on April 24, 2008. For the LTS Desktop releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 36 months.

This article series shows you how to successfully setup and run KVM on Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS. Ubuntu has an excellent software packaging and delivery system (APT) and delivers performance that is a superb substrate on which to run virtual machines. Combining Ubuntu with KVM is a match made in Data Center heaven.

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is pinning its hopes of OEM acceptance on the Lucid Lynx. We’ve put the screws to this new Long Term Support (LTS) release, comparing it to Canonical’s previous LTS release, 8.04 Hardy Heron, to look for progress.

According to a posting on the Ubuntu developers mailing list, Ubuntu developers are planning to push the next release of Firefox, 3.6.4, to the current Ubuntu release, Lucid Lynx 10.04, and to older versions such as Hardy (8.04LTS), Jaunty (9.04) and Karmic Koala (9.10). These older versions currently have Firefox 3.0 and xulrunner 1.9 both [...]

The update patches 5 important security issues (see below for details) discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various hackers. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to update your system as soon as possible

A very dedicated coder took the time to get a full desktop OS onto this device. It obviously won’t have much functionality, but its potential is only limited by your free time.

Canonical announced a few hours ago the immediate availability of a new Linux kernel security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake), 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron), 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and 9.10 (Karmic Koala).

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, the fourth maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 8.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures.

Ubuntu-Tweak is a great ubuntu utility that has a strong functionality such as add and remove apps,edit sources/third-party sources,free up disk space by removing unneeded packages,configure auto-start apps,configure desktop icons,windows,Compiz Fusion and gnome things and so on.

If you wanna test the new Plone alpha release (Plone4.0alpha1) you’d need a 2.6 installation. If you are using your VPS and 8.04 LTS as your rock OS, you won’t want to upgrade just for the python version.

Arkeia Software (www.arkeia.com) has released Arkeia Network Backup version 8 in the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS repository as a no-cost, small-network package exclusively for Ubuntu users.

You turn on your trusty old Linux box, and things are going well as you pass through the boot loader, until the disk check reveals that your hard drive partition table is corrupt, and you are unable to access your machine. You need a good rescue disk — and the best way to get one [...]

New motherboard has come and I ask my friend to install Ubuntu Hardy 8.0.4.3 . Everything is fine except proxy section when I try to apt-get update.

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how to bring a stock CentOS 5 server up to spec to run Drupal 6. It seems only fair I do the same for Debian and Ubuntu, since it seems they too are not without their little issues when a stock install.

Running computer janitor on Ubuntu 8.04 will remove AIR (v. 1.5 at the time of this writing) if you have it installed, but you cannot simply reinstall the AIR package.

Firebird packages for ubuntu , karmic ,intrepid , jaunty and hardy are ready and uploaded into my ppa

The purpose of this article is not to whine or rant, but to bring some perspective to the evolution (or lack thereof) that Ubuntu has experienced between versions 8.04 and 9.04. I write this article in an attempt to help

This script automates the set up of openerp-server-5.0.2-0 & openerp-client-5.0.2-0 & openerp-web-5.0.2-0 on Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS (Server or Desktop). The goal is to provide an all-in-one installer of OpenERP for Linux.

So oft delayed but never forgotten, we have finally finished our look at Ubuntu 8.04, and we hope it has been worth the wait. This massive look at Ubuntu gives you a thorough picture of 8.04

Ubuntu can be seen as quite bloated on a default desktop install­a­tion, this guide aims to provide tips and solu­tions for cut­ting down on the cruft and also will provide you with some applic­a­tions that are not quite so resource hungry as altern­at­ives.

Tonight I wanted to play with a couple of Linux distros on my desktop and I decided to install VirtualBox since it’s free and already has packages in Ubuntu for it.

This guide shows you how to install Koha on Ubuntu 8.04 Server LTS / Slicehost

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, the third maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 8.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures.

I’ve been using Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop for ages, and never had any reason to upgrade from there – “it just works, I’m done upgrading” is what I’d smugly tell people… Now, I’ve found a big reason to upgrade: Ksplice

I’m still using Hardy (8.04 64 Bit) as I prefer to stick with LTS releases – This means another year to go with 8.04 before the next LTS (10.04). Until then, here’s the answers for the 10 things I do to customize a new Ubuntu Hardy installation:

I haven’t seen any news out there so I think it’s really useful to make you all know that a new Ubuntu Desktop Course has been released, it’s written on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, here’s some link you may like…