If you are anxious to get your hands on some nice CDs with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) as soon as possible, then you should pre-order them right now from Ubuntu's ShipIt service, FREE of charge. They have started taking the orders a few minutes ago, so hurry up!

If you want to count the days until Hardy Heron is released - something that will happen on the 24th this month - you can get a nice script, to show it on your website. After you get the countdown script from here, you can even modify it to look the way you want. Each day the image will change, counting the days remaining until the release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron.

Although many of you have downloaded the Beta release of Hardy, I am sure that there will be some more changes until the final product gets on the market. So far, we only know the features that are included in the Beta release. Anyway, if you want to have a good-looking operating system, you should be glad, because we have a tutorial about how to install Avant Window Navigator on Ubuntu Hardy.

The final release of Ubuntu Hardy is getting closer and closer with a lot of changes from the Beta version. At a first glance, you won't notice these changes, because most of them are internal, like bugfixes, security updates, etc.

You can download the Release Candidate version of Ubuntu 8.04 (for testing purposes only) right now from Softpedia.