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- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14When I switched to Linux the last thing I was in a rush to do was create a "Windows-like "Start" button."
I understand it puts some new users at ease, but wouldn't it be more appropriate to teach them to use the existing menu? It's less complicated than the Windows Start button anyway. - b7j0c, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11and it must be noted that minus one delay announced early on, dapper has shipped on the day they said they would ship. kudos to the team, this is a great product.
- helfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
- cazabam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8latest firefox is included. if you add the backports repository then the latest firefox should be added shortly after it is released.
Not sure about the refresh thing - I use TFT so it's always 60Hz :-) - pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8It's the latest version of Ubuntu Linux. "Dapper Drake."
- macluvjay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7auto update should do this for you, but if you are anxious, a simple "sudo apt-get upgrade" from the terminal should do the trick.
- dolson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8You misspelled "brown."
- linshots, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Dapper final screenies: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=659&slide=4&title=ubuntu+6.06+screenshots
- nickm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Dont use automatix :) use Easy ubuntu, its far safer
- KeirThomas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7From the first line of the site:
"For those who have been waiting for the Linux desktop revolution, well, I'm pleased to tell you it's here and knocking on your door. It's called Ubuntu 6.06 LTS."
Not negative at all. Very positive. The revolution starts here. - nickm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7On point #2 DONT use Ndiswrapper for a Broadcom card, use this guide instead
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1071920&mode=linear
as dugg here: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Get_your_wireless_card_working_in_Ubuntu - Magadass, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Just like I say to comments like these on Vista, you dont need to reinvent the wheel to produce a quality product. If everything was re-innovated in the world we wouldnt get very far would we? So why do you people assume this changes when it comes to computer software? If OSX has something useful in it, than use it, and etc. etc.
Also this innovation directly links to patents and why patents should never exceed a 10 year life period. If patents didnt exceed 10 years we would be a much more advanced society today! But I digress a bit on that argument... - dolson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4To be fair, the delay wasn't so much "announced" as "decided upon by those involved."
Even I was allowed to voice any concerns I had, and I am merely an official member with only about 13 packages in the distro. - KeirThomas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The site now has a section covering installing 3D card drivers under Dapper.
- shergill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Anyone know how I can upgrade the Kubuntu Dapper Drake beta to the release version?
- alteeffour, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I don't see how he was negative about OO.org. He just stated that it is a Word dominated world and you will probably have to save as .doc so here is how you do it.
- BRODEL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh.. didn't know that. I was thinking it was just the next release scheduled. I remember when I got Breezy Badger (the last release before dapper drake) everyone was talking about plans for Dapper Drake and I had just got Warty Warthog (the one before Breezy Badger) like two days before. I didn't mind formatting though, I liked Breezy much better than Warty.
- BRODEL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well it had only been 2 days so there wasn't really anything I was worried about losing and I had read several posts on the forums about issues with updating. I could of updated to Dapper that way too, but decided against it. Just feels cleaner this way..
- tnwake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thanks. Just curious.. why does it have a different name and why isn't it referenced on the Ubuntu site? When I go to download the latest version it just says 6.06.
- GraemeF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Phrases like "over 25" and "25+" really bug me. Is anyone's brain going to get fried if they see the number 28?
No? Thought not.
Oh, and don't be fooled by the one about getting a Broadcom wifi card working - I already wasted "over 2" days of my life trying to get mine going. I now have a wire. - tnwake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ok I'm sure I'll get dugg down for this, but what the hell is dapper? Nothing on that page refers to "dapper" and nothing I can find anywhere else explains what it is either.
- jeolmeun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Is Firefox 1.5 easy to install or upgrade with Ubuntu yet? What about setting the refresh rate over 60Hz?
- nickm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3its ubuntu 6.06 nicknamed the Dapper drake...if it had been called 6.06 all along it would have looked silly had it come out in april...or july as the numbering would have been wrong.
and its 6.06 because it came out in June 06 - wush, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I really need to know how to disable "mouse acceleration" in Ubuntu. The mouse section only has a slider between "high" and "low" for acceleration. I want nice, fast and linear mouse movement. Pointer acceleration is horrible.
- ratrip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3PCLinuxOS might have been an option, if it didn't crash on install on all of my machines. Only VMWare ran it, albeit excruciatingly slow.
Ubuntu runs great and getting all the goodies just takes 2 minutes more. - KeirThomas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wush - I've got sliders for Acceleration and Sensitivity. Acceleration is mid-way along, sensitivity is low. BUT... if you're using a notebook touchpad then these are ignored. Instead you have to edit the Synaptics settings in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
- regeya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Been using Kubuntu Dapper since the day before the deadline extension was announced. I've been very pleased so far; you'll see no ZDNet-style "Linux isn't ready for the desktop" trolls from me.
Makes me wonder, though; if the average ZDNet columnist turned their "objective" eye toward automobiles, would cars be ready for Grandma yet?
OK, so that's a bit off-subject. This is more on-the-subject: Arnieboy means well, but Automatix can sometimes break your system in annoying ways. For a safer automagic sprucing up of Ubuntu, go with EasyUbuntu. Or work on your chops and install a few packages from the Universe and Multiverse repositories. - wush, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm using a USB mouse. I have both of those sliders too. The trouble is that the acceleation one seems to go from "a little" to "a lot" - I want "none".
Just to be sure, I'm not talking about plain old cursor speed. This acceleration is when the on-screen result will differ depending on how fast you physically moved the mouse over some distance. Not just the distance. Yuck. - nickm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This guide is the poorest thing i have ever read, Don't follow its advice unless you were specifically looking to sodomize Ubuntu
Some of the points are just plain wrong, it says ubuntu doesnt provide alternative wallpaper, um...dapper does, its clear that this guide has been written for breezy and it just took him longer than a release cycle to write it so the name has been changed from a guide for breezy to a guide for dapper :) - MikeBasinger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This guide is not the best since it does many things the non Ubuntu way. The guide at http://www.krazypenguin.net/Ubuntu_Dapper_Drake_6.06_Guide is better.
- nickm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i think they're going for a 6.10 eft release too, i dont know though.
- nickm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3well, my solution worked and Ndis didnt using the same Driver..
My solution also means that once it works, it works and doesnt depend on the latest version of Ndis working with my card/driver, much in the same way that people find a program works in wine but breaks on a update... - dWhisper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Very nice site for people looking at dabbling in Linux for the first time.
- Beanlover, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Can someone post a link for the complete changelog between 5.10 Breezy and 6.06 Dapper? I looked for it last night and only found a "highlights" of sorts...none of which I was interested in.
- nickm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://digg.com/linux_unix/Get_your_wireless_card_working_in_Ubuntu - better than NDIS for a broadcom card... try again, it'l work with this guide
- bombay56, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9this site is more of a "make your ubuntu act like windows" than a how-to for noobs. its also very negative, referring to OO.org and gedit as "ugly". no digg.
- KeirThomas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Both point 2 in the link and your suggested guide utilize the proprietary Windows driver, which is very undesirable. I would love to use an open source driver instead but I can't. So why is the method outlined in your link any better?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I'd like to see it crash...I've got it installed on a PII 350Mhz PC with ISA cards. If it can support this one, I'd say you're set.
- nickm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I really reccomend that people seed the Torrents, i have been doing all day, really the more people that seed the better it is for everyone, Ubuntu is too good to not download or give up because its going too slow
- wush, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I found the guide very useful, especially the tips regarding media players and adding the additional repositories. :)
- BRODEL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I don't know, but dapper drake is the "code name" for it. 6.06 and Dapper Drake are the same thing though.
Edgy Eft will be the next "code name" for the next release which I am guessing will be sometime in December 07 so it will probably be called Edgy Eft and 7.12. That is if it isn't pushed back like this release was. - nickm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Handy applets for notebooks: wifi strength, what about the network manager applet too, i find that easier than network monitor, and it automatically reconnects you should you drop a connection, which network monitor doesnt.
- pozzoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1EasyUbuntu doesn't work so well... I tried it last week, the repositories it uses and the dma configuration for dvds were broken.
- Philoushka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am always amazed whenever ntfs partitions aren't automatically mounted. Am I expecting too much?
- alej744, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1oh it's ok, Ubuntu already supports Airport
:P
haha - Wicky2k5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Automated script to get latest Firefox version (Mozilla build):
http://pykeylogger.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu:Chronicles#Install_Firefox_1.5 - hashbrowncipher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg effect exceeded the bandwidth of the entire domain. Down as of 10:39 EDT.
- jessejoedotcom, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Or just let Automatix do it all for you - http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=177646
Yes it is out for Dapper now. - KeirThomas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's working again now. Digg away :)
- samsara1981, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe they think users would be confused if a drive is readable but not writeable. They might lose some changes (by saving and not paying attention to error messages, or not knowing what they mean or whether to actually heed them) and be eternally pissed off with Ubuntu.
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