Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron is due for release on April 24. Some of hardy’s features include;

• Gnome 2.22
• Linux kernel 2.6.24
• PulseAudio
• Xorg 7.3
• Firefox 3
• Brasero

I installed Hardy on my Dell XPS M1210 and noticed another great feature, native read/write support of NTFS partitions. There is now no longer any need to install drivers such as ntfs-3g. As an LTS release, this version is supported for at least three years by Canonical.

Here is a screenshot of the standard desktop with a few apps open. The Human theme tends towards more orange than brown these days.