Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS: the deployment can begin
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First update maintenance for the distribution of GNU / Linux Ubuntu 8.04 to support long-term. More than 200 upgraded, and therefore bugs and security problems corrected to consider a deployment including more serene.
After the official launch of Ubuntu 8.04 at the end of April, some voices raised to criticize a somewhat hasty exit with a product suffering from several bugs that are not very serious for a distribution due robust as the heron (Hardy Heron) and moreover affublée the label LTS, distinctive sign of its medium to long term. An asset seduction to encourage the establishment of Ubuntu in the workplace.
The sponsor Canonical and has been trapped by a development cycle of 6 months, ignoring lift bugs that have accumulated in April, and Ubuntu 8.04 was the victim without being always the cause (but sometimes all same). Mark Shuttleworth has seemingly drawn the conclusions, declaring war on all the bugs of the free world without exception, and promise a better rebound patches concocted by the Ubuntu community for the whole community of free, - understood that this is not yet the case … This leaves pensive.
But today it is almost a new beginning for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS with the publication of an updated maintenance 8.04.1, always LTS course. More than one update, it is updated several times with those of more than 200 software packages included in the installation media. Indeed, the stability of the product is being increased, as its security.
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS + 1
Among the updates that Firefox with the latest proposed version 3.0 directly instead of the beta version, correcting a problem with the customer Samba to enable new LAN Manager authentication with old versions of Windows servers, or the correction of various problems with the interface FUSE in the new virtual file system that prevented GNOME network access to shared files. More details are available in the official announcement.
Remember that users who have already made Ubuntu 8.04, it does make a new facility. In carrying out regular updates of their system, the latter must be level with Ubuntu 8.04.1, which can be downloaded from this address. The support of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS expires in April 2011 for the Desktop, and April 2013 for the Server version.