sad.goodbyes

Development of Automatix, the popular tool for automating the installation of commonly requested application in some Debian-based distribution (including Ubuntu), has now officially ceased. It's a sad day indeed for the casual Linux users as they have one tool less they can use, and a sad day for Ubuntu advocates such as me as I have one tool less that I can use for convincing people to switch. My only wish is that another similar tool would be able to replace it or better yet Canonical gives us a better tool tightly integrated with Ubuntu (you guys can always redesign your add/remove applications module right?).

Hardy.Heron.28.days.and.counting

Canonical is set to release the next version of the popular desktop Linux distro, Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) next month. Being an Ubuntu fan since 5.04 this is a welcome thing for me specifically because Hardy Heron is the latest Ubuntu release that comes with LTS (Long-term support), the previous being Dapper Drake (6.04) and thats 3 releases ago (roughly a year and half). This means that we get to enjoy another release that has stability in mind, good news for those who want to switch. I have downloaded the beta release and installed in on my office desktop via wubi, I will be evaluating it for a couple of days and explore the new features and if it proves to be top notch (which I seriously think it is), I will be upgrading my notebook to use it as well. Note that this is beta release guys, so unless you're ready to solve possible annoying bugs wait till the stable version is released.

*I haven't been able to update this blog as much as I want to but I will definitely be keeping it up to date in the coming days. Too many bloggable events so little time :)