8BitKid: Living Bit by Bit

My favorite alliterative-loving Linux company, Ubuntu, is gearing up to release version 8.04, aka “Hardy Heron” tomorrow. I have been using Ubuntu intermittently for years now. Usually, I end up playing with the latest version, reveling in the nerdy self-satisfaction of getting to embrace and tweak an open-source OS, getting frustrated by the random quirks, and fleeing back to OS X a week later.

I’ve been testing the release candidate build, and have been quite impressed with a number of tweaks that really add up to a vastly improved OS. The general software includes seem better, and I have had a much more pleasant networking experience. I’ve been eying buying an ultraportable notebook for a long time now, and am hoping to combine this release with one of the new lightweights debuting this summer. So gear up your bandwidth and get prepared to grab the latest Ubuntu build when it goes live. Maybe this creature will be the one that keeps me in the Ubuntu stable.

- feeling anxious? click here to download the release candidate.