On Monday, Canonical announced that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition would be available on 24th April, released at the same time with the Desktop Edition. The 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Server Edition is Canonical's
fourth server release and will be supported for five years with maintenance and security updates.

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was released on Thursday as expected! Being the second Long Term Support (LTS) version, which means users get security updates for five years for the server edition and three years for the desktop edition, Hardy Heron comes with numerous new features and improvements over previous versions. For a detailed overview, take a look here.

For those of you who need some help installing Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron), we have released a very nice, step-by-step, tutorial that will definitely help you achieve that task. Take a look here for more details.

At the end of the week, Linspire announced the immediate availability of their CNR (Click 'N Run) client, also known as the one-click installation software, for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS operating system. The client comes with applications such as Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Notebook, SoftMaker Office, DOSBox, ON Networks, Snipshot, Virus Total. CNR grants access to a lot of wonderful games, multimedia codecs, video and audio players, image editors/viewers and much, much more!

Those of you who want to participate in the Ubuntu Open Week and learn more about the Ubuntu operating system should know that it will take place from Monday 28 April 'till Saturday 3 May, on IRC in the #ubuntu-classroom channel. If you participate in the Ubuntu Open Week, you could:

• learn about the Ubuntu landscape
• talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu project
• find out about the Community and its relationship with Canonical
• participate in an open Q&A with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu
• and much more...

Now, let's move on to the security updates and fixes for all the Ubuntu releases.

The updates for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS are:

• gnumeric_1.6.3-0ubuntu4.1
• firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15
• ca-certificates 20050804-0ubuntu0.6.06.1
• xorg-server 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10.11

Next, the updates for Ubuntu 6.10:

• gnumeric_1.7.0-1ubuntu4.1
• firefox 2.0.0.14+0nobinonly-0ubuntu0.6.10

Here are the updates for Ubuntu 7.04:

• gnumeric_1.7.8-0ubuntu1.1
• firefox 2.0.0.14+1nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.4
• ca-certificates 20061027-0ubuntu0.2

The updates for Ubuntu 7.10 are:

• gnumeric_1.7.11-1ubuntu3.1
• firefox 2.0.0.14+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10
• ca-certificates 20070303-0ubuntu0.7.10.1

And finally, the updates for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:

• libitpp 4.0.1-3ubuntu0.1
• compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.7.4-0ubuntu5
• gvfs 0.2.3-0ubuntu5
• foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20071204-0ubuntu2.1
• virtinst 0.300.2-0ubuntu6
• xmms-crossfade 0.3.14-1build1

As you can see, the major updates this week are Compiz, GVFS, Gnumeric and Firefox. See you again next week for another Ubuntu Weekly Report and always remember to keep your Ubuntu up-to-date!

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