Ubuntu – 8.04 (Review)

With such an expansive operating system like Ubuntu 8.04 you’ll likely encounter the gamut of opinions ranging from praise to unsatisfied complaints. Having used Ubuntu 8.04 since the early alpha testing period, I can say that I find Ubuntu 8.04 to be one of the more (if not the most) polished and ready for widespread use Linux operating systems made to date. I would have appreciated if Ubuntu included utilities to control PulseAudio and Compiz by default, but installing those apps were easy enough via Synaptic or apt-get. With Ubuntu 8.04 you get the familiar ease of use found within Ubuntu, a wealth of open source applications ready to install from Ubuntu’s repositories and on top of that the extra stability that seems built into 8.04 LTS. Its amazing how fast and far Ubuntu has progressed in such a short period of time.