Ubuntu Entertainment

Admit it. You've been working hard, and now you deserve the chance to just kick back and relax. Fortunately, Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron gives you the tools to help you with that. By default the Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron desktop runs the Gnome environment and offers a wide variety of Multimedia/Entertainment features including audio tools, games, graphic design programs, video tools and more.

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron includes a highly refined group of entertainment packages that are designed to bring you what you need and nothing you don't. For ripping CDs Ubuntu 8.04 offers the Sound Juicer/ CD Extractor while the simplicity and effectiveness of the new Brasero CD/DVD Burner helped it make the cut as the main CD/DVD burning application. Totem handles any movie playing requests be default and Rhythmbox serves up any music requests. Also record right from the Gnome Sound/Video part of the menu by selecting Sound Recorder. In the Games section you will find almost 20 games, many you may recognize such as Nimbles, Mahjongg, Mines and many more. GIMP servers as a very effective graphic design program and Inkscape is a quality illustrating option along with OpenOffice Draw installed by default as well. 

 If your looking for more applications, the default applications are just the tip of the iceberg. Click on System --- Administration --- Synaptic Package Manager. Here you can download and install thousands of applications free of charge.

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