The Ubuntu Hardy Heron is upon us. It was released last week. I have already been using it for over a month now, all the way back to the first beta releases, and I can say it’s a well polished release, with some new features and usable by beauty and geek alike. For the first time, suspend really works on my laptop (even with a proprietary graphics driver) and that is something to celebrate. Maybe we could have an Ubuntu Release Party next time ?

But, there is a downside to this release: Firefox 3.0 beta 5 is still quite unstable, with several bugs, and particularly bad Flash support. Bug #192888 is particularly nasty and annoying, since you have to trade crashes for lack of sound within flash animations. If you need to use Firefox 3.0, then hold off on the update for a couple of days until an update comes down the apt pipe . Beyond that, another great release by the Ubuntu team.

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