Some new features of Ubuntu 8.04 include:
- Mozilla Firefox 3 (Beta 5), for fast browsing and greatly reduced exposure to viruses, web forgery and spyware.
- Enhanced photo experience: The enhanced default photo manager, F-Spot, together with improved camera and phone recognition means users can upload, tag, manage, display, delete, print and share photos with friends and family more easily.
- Music sharing and download: Users can plug in a PSP, share playlists with friends, buy from the Magnatune online music store, stream live radio and plug in more devices than ever (with UpnP).
- Better video: The new default movie player now allows users to browse YouTube and other video sources across the web and to share their videos with others. It integrates with Myth TV, the open source TVR, so users can watch their favourite TV shows straight on the desktop. Brasero allows them to easily burn all content to CD or DVD.
- Productivity enhancements: Clock and calendar integration is available to manage time across the globe with a single click to set, attend and receive alerts about appointments.
- Slick desktop: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS combines the latest GNOME applications with desktop visual effects, giving users a smoother, better-looking and more intuitive experience.
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I am really looking forward to testing this out. I have several computers and a laptop, I will probably start on a system with stable open graphics and then test it with my ATI graphic system as there always seems to be a problem with integrating the ATI closed source drivers, perhaps some day ATI will see the light and give us some help with that for their own benefit also. I would love to report new advances and help repair flaws to them if they would only be open with the source.
I was an alpha and beta tester. Overall, I don't see much of a difference, at least in my case. Hardcore windoze users might benefit quite a bit from this version.
I have an ATI graphics card on one of my computers. So far, I haven't encountered any major problems. But yea, they really should open up their drivers for their own benefit.
Some of my FX extensions, or add-ons as they are now called, do not work with FX 3.0 yet, so I'm delaying the upgrade on my primary work machine.
I found this today at Linux.com and looks like a nice utility that I had not seen before. NETSTIFF
http://www.linux.com/feature/132197
Allows you to watch a location for updates or changes.
Specto might be a better choice.
I found it eventually, I think you got the space when you made the link and it add %20 or (percent)20 meaning space to the end of the link and fails. That looks like a good deal. Or I could just do the console magic.
sudo apt-get install specto
Yep, you're right. My FX WYSIWYG extension, for some unknown reason, added %20 to the end of the link.
http://chanweiyee.blogspot.com/2008/03/specto-monitor-changes-to-web-pages.html
And yes, Specto is in the Ubuntu Universe repository, so Ubuntu users can simply use "sudo apt-get install specto" to install Specto, or just "apt-get install specto" if they're logged on as root.
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