Looking Forward, Ubuntu Linux 6.06

SilentBob4 writes to tell us that Mad Penguin has an interesting look at the upcoming version of Ubuntu. From the article: "All in all, Ubuntu 6.06 is gearing up to be quite an impressive release. Granted, I saw some bugs during my stay on the distribution, but can I really complain? It's not a full release, so it deserves some breathing room. Considering some of the horribly authored software I've looked at over the years, I feel that Ubuntu in pre-release form is more stable than other distros when they reach final release status. It's not quite in the league of Slackware and Red Hat/Fedora in that respect yet, but it's surely getting there in a hurry. As I said before, it smoked Fedora Core 5 performance-wise, so in that department it's solidly ahead."

Comments

Features - GCC 4?

[SillySnake]

Features

        * Linux kernel 2.6.15-18 PREEMPT
        * X.org 7.0
        * gcc 4.0.3/glibc 2.3.6
        * GNOME 2.13.94
        * Firefox 1.5.0.1 web browser
        * Evolution 2.5.92 email/groupware client
        * OpenOffice 2.0.2 productivity suite
        * Gaim 1.5.0 instant messenger
        * Gimp 2.2.10 image editor

I haven't been keeping up with the 4.0 branch of GCC, but is 4.0.3 really stable enough for the average home user?

Re:Features - GCC 4?

[Bronster]

Ubuntu Breezy (5.10) was compiled almost exclusively on gcc-4.0 (with the notable, and annoying, exception of the kernel)

It's really been very stable - I've had no trouble compiling quite a bit of C and C++ software with gcc-4.0 on both Breezy and Dapper (6.04^H6).

Re:Features - GCC 4?

[zerocool^]

-bash-3.00$ yum info gcc
Repository updates-released is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository base is listed more than once in the configuration
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Installed Packages
Name : gcc
Arch : i386
Version: 4.0.2
Release: 8.fc4
Size : 5.1 M
Repo : installed
Summary: The GNU cc and gcc C compilers.
 
Description:
  The gcc package includes the cc and gcc GNU compilers for compiling C
code.
 
-bash-3.00$

That's from Fedora Core 4. It's a year old now...

Re:Very happy with Ubuntu 5.10

[Mad_Rain]

I'm eager to try out the new Ubuntu when it comes out. Will we be able to upgrade to 6, or will we need to do a complete reinstall?

You know that wonderful "apt-get" program you like so much in Ubuntu?

apt-get has you covered:

1. Back up your "/etc/apt/sources.list" file. 2. Edit it with your text-editor of choice, changing all the spots where it says "breezy" to "dapper". 3. Update by typing "sudo apt-get update" and 4. upgrade by typing "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". Wait for downloads, and all should be good. 4 steps (5 if you count the waiting) to the upgrade process.