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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Ubuntu Dapper will ship for free:
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
Linux for human beings! - Protoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Looks at About Ubuntu on system...hey hey! I'm already there! Thank you Update-Manager and apt-get!
- jacobmp92, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11YESSS!!! Its here! Now only a week until the final release... then it's on to Edgy.
- murph2481, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Amazing to see how much this version has progressed from the first few flight CDs. Should be fun to see what happens with Edgy Eft. I use this on all my computers at home and find it very stable and am very happy with it
- eqisow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9For older computers use Xubuntu. (with XFCE)
- mwales, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Woo Hoo. I've been running Dapper Drake as my desktop since Beta 1. Really really like it. I've been avoiding all the updates for fear of something breaking until RC1 came out.
This is probably the first OS I've ever been this excited about the release of since Windows 9x. - nick58b, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9They just updated their wiki page: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/dapperrc
- phoenixp3k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+93 years desktop, 5 years server
- linshots, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9screenshots: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=651&slide=3&title=ubuntu+6.06+rc+screenshots
- atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I think so, they offer 5 years support for this release.
- atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10BTW people, use a bittorent client so you'll not overload the servers.... *pats Opera 9.0b2*
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7LTS stands for Long Term Support?
- Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Edgy Eft will be great. Built off the stabilty of dapper with fun things like XGL by default (or so they are talking)
This OS is leaps and bounds beyond breezy, and as it looks right now, its only competition is SuSE.
LONG LIVE UBUNTU
EDIT: And beyond that, I am so fscking happy they FINALLY got rid of that ugly brown theme. The orange is nice, and kind of caught me off guard :) - forumposters, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Will this run well on older computers?
- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I have been running Flight 7, and just recently set up AIGLX + Compiz. Never has Linux so been so pleasant :)
A quick video I recorded to demo Compiz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmOcT_sDVVI - nbx909, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://releases.ubuntu.com/6.06/ubuntu-6.06-rc-desktop-i386.iso.torrent
- tapo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm running it on a 500 MHZ Compaq with 128 MB RAM, and it runs decently. It's a little bit sluggish, but beats the ***** out of Windows 98. Though to be honest it bugs me sometimes, and I'll probably put DamnSmallLinux in its place.
On my 900 MHZ, 256 MB RAM Vaio laptop, Dapper runs like a dream. - Flooq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4SUSE 10.1 doesn't actually do that with the initial install because it's not finalised yet but it does make it a little easier to install than a lot of distros including Ubuntu. There seems to be plenty of Xgl & Compiz documentation for all the major distros now though.
- AngryBacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I would, but the Kubuntu torrent is dead. :(
- Flooq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Exactly. They're doing an LTS release every two years with normal releases sticking to the six month release cycle.
- tapo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7If you're running a previous release of Ubuntu, such as Breezy, run the following command in a terminal:
gksudo "update-manager -d"
Then choose to upgrade to Ubuntu 6.06.
If you're running Dapper from one of the flights or betas, simply run the update manager. - leohart, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6You have gotta be kidding. SuSE? Ubuntu is a clear winner. When I was running SuSE, I have no idea what is going on under the hood. With Ubuntu, a nice blend of GUI tool and CLI tutorials get me up to speed. LONG LIVE UBUNTU.
- mDot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@Tyrekicker
You sir, are and idiot. XGL/AIGLX Compiz moves much of the visual heavy lifting away from your main processor and onto your video card, freeing memory and processor cycles.
Wobbly windows, Expose-esqe window viewing and graphical alt-tab switching may look slow in a video, but in use; the desktop is noticably faster then GDM and KDM only desktops. - pozzoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Mmmm... I don't know. Last weekend I tried to upgrade to dapper and got a bug that hanged the installation, leaving me with a unusable system. I reinstalled breezy and tried to upgrade again, this time avoiding the problematic package.
It worked fine, except for a problem that breaks my adsl connection 10-29 seconds after installed.
I went to launchpad to report the bugs.
The first one was already reported and tagged as Major but not enough info available
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/ source/pcmcia-cs/ bug/37430
The second one is
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/ bug/46260
and google returns similar problems reported in other places, seems to be a dhclient bug.
This bugs are crititical to me, the first made me loose time and my manually installed programs, the second one didn't allow me to connect to the internet. That was ok because I've choosen to use a beta release, but now there's a "complete, stable and suitable for testing by any user" release with the same bugs... I wonder if those bugs will still there at release time. Hope not. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Short answer is yes.
Long one: Windows betas also hits frontpage, even vista screenshots. So why popular linux distro can't go on the front page? - Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3We would love to put in more multimedia support, but closed codecs really stop that rather quickly :(
Pretty much you have 3 choices (Using MP3 as an example): 1) Grab Easy Ubuntu and install whatever you need in terms of propriety software/codecs. 2) Install them by hand. 3) Convert all those MP3s to Ogg and use them on any OS, with a open codec, then build your life around it (aka purchasing items such as cowon's iaudio media player, rather than a non-ogg supportive ipod) - macjonesnz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Dapper rocks, I'm using the network manager app, and love the fact that I can unplug from Ethernet and take my laptop elsewhere and it just works on wireless, without changing anything at all. Well done !
http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ - drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3bring it back to life by ftping the iso and hten seeding it.
- mDot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Dapper is significantly faster then Breezy. The last few beta releases have even been more stable. Cosmetic upgrades are literally just "scratching the surface" of the differences between the releases.
- aussieaubs, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8>> This is probably the first OS I've ever been this excited about the release of since Windows 9x.
wow - not much going on in your life then eh ;)
=) - Tyrekicker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2WPA has been working fine on my laptop for months. Ever since they merged the latest Network Manager into the Dapper tree. I am not sure if it is installed by default, but it is only few clicks in synaptic away.
- neilsly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Is WPA working out of the box? Supposedly it was, then it wasn't, then it was etc... I installed it the last flight and I saw nothing but wep.
- pozzoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sorry, the links are:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/pcmcia-cs/+bug/37430
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/46260 - mDot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That depends. On my mother in laws 733MHz P-something or other with 128MB ram; Ubuntu's Gnome Desktop is painfully slow. However, switching to XFCE Desktop via Synaptic made her old machine quick enough to use sans frustration. XFCE is good looking and as configurable as I'd like it to be.
- anjinash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As to whether Ubuntu Dapper will run on older machines, the short answer is "Yes". But you won't truly appreciate it as much.
For example: I have Ubuntu running on an old Pentium 2 with 256MB or RAM and it works well enough as a file server for my home network. It's stable and never crashes, so I have no bitches with it. But it lacks the punchieness and zazz that my Pentium 3 with 2 GB of RAM (and a nice 512MB ATI video card) has when I run Ubuntu on that machine.
I liked Ubuntu on my file server. Now that I see it running on modern hardware .. I LOVE Ubuntu.
So yes, it will run on older hardware ... but the better the hardware you throw at it, the nicer it will run. - Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wanted to add this but the editing time expired
If you cant figure it out/arn't confident/dont want to risk breaking your rig, visit #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net and they'll help ya out :) (Or go to #kubuntu and ask directly for me if you want) - Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dude your running linux! Come on man!
I don't know how tech swavvy you are, but "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" will allow you to reconfigure your xorg, letting you select more/bigger screen resolution, just dont change anything else without knowing what it is (You will come across some very odd options, just press enter) - bilangew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If, by "older computers", you mean Pentium 166 with 64mb of memory, this will be slow as hell.
My rule goes like this: you can install Ubuntu on any machine you would install WindowsXP on. - creepysleepy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Any chance this will support Amarok 1.4?
- mtthwmiddleton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What system requirements are we looking at to run XGL? I have a IBM ThinkPad r52, 512 of RAM, I think a pretty small video card (My top screen res is only 1024X768) will that run XGL?
- pozzoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@drosdin I suppose I had the same problem that you had, the difference is that instead of bitching I reported the bug to see if I could help in something. See.. windows is not "stable" nor "safe", so I'm glad I have an alternative. There are many people working to get this done, and ask nothing in return, maybe only a little polite feedback and some of your time if you can.
Another thing, why are you complaining about your update to dapper? you shouldn't be using dapper until it is released, and if you do you should realize its in beta.
It only took me a few hours to reinstall the system (and most of that time it was just the computer downloading updates and packages without my assistence). It is now working nice and stable.
Oh, no...I forgot, I installed composite this time and discovered another bug when I enable transparencies. And guess what? I reported it! No crying. But I know I can disable transparencies and it's not the end of the world. So, Breezy bugs are minor by now... - mDot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Been running 1.4 since beta.
- pabster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@jimmygoon
Um, OpenSuSE is excellent. It's one of the most polished and stable distros out there. I'd say your troubles had something to do with PEBKAC.... - MiloMindrbindr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1my only wish is that theyll add a higher resolution setting than 1024x768, it is my only major complaint. I was dual booting on my old windows box and now running ubuntu on my macbook pro and it would be soooo nice to run ubuntu in full screen on the mbp, but alas that relsolution just doesnt cut it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Both distributions supports this resolution. Maybe your xorg.conf isn't correct. I have always 2048x1536@60Hz (max monitor possibilities) when running ubuntu livecd or suse installation.
- brentcore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hey, i didn't know ubuntu supported that resolution! I'm gonna swtich from SUSE to ubuntu now so that I can use my dual monitors and xgl at the same time.
- ssam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1try installing network manager
you'll need to unconfigure your wireless card system->admin->networking, so that networkmanager does not ignore it - thund3rstruck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone know if this release will work correctly with Acer Aspire 5672 WLMi? The breezy badger could not recognize the integrated WiFi or the widescreen ATI display....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hm that's a fair cop. i dont get nearly as annoyed by the vista news. i hope im not becoming a MS fanboi. maybe it's because ubuntu has a schedule and sticks to it so the fact that there's a new one coming out isnt really news since it was expected
- Paul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1very nice... FASTER! Never saw a beter OS install (they let you play in the live version as it works in the background.)
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