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New Enterprise-Level Ubuntu Due This Week
daria42 writes "According to Ubuntu's official release schedule, the next version of its Linux distribution, code-named "Dapper Drake" is due to be released this week, June 1 to be precise. This landmark release will be supported for 5 years (previous versions were only supported for 18 months) and is being touted as ready for enterprise use." From the article: "Dapper Drake will be supported for three years for the desktop version and five years for servers, compared to 18 months for the current 5.10 'Breezy Badger' version. The code release will come after the development process was extended by six weeks in order to improve the reliability of the software."
1st of July, although you can download and install breezy now, dist-upgrade to dapper and then dist-upgrade on the day (I think you can even get a flight-5 dapper ISO right now...?)
I think therefore I am... a Linux geek.
It's the 1st Linux both my PC and my laptop accepted without a hitch during install or usage (past month or so). Bluetooth, Wireless connection, Printer HP PSC 2175 (with built-in scanner), wireless mouse (MX 7000), wireless keyboard, Multimedia keys and hibernate/resume all worked out of the box. Firefox as default browser is very nice. Ubuntu did what several redhat and suse installs didn't do: got me away from XP with a SMILE! *does happy dance*
Please, someone correct me if I'm wrong saying this!! I think you've misunderstood the term enterprise, in this contex. Ubuntu Dapper is 100% free, open source software. No propriety 'enterprise' ties (in that sense of the word). It's stable (like Debian Sarge), reliable and comes with everything you'd need, and it's gunna be supported for 5 years, much like RHEL does, which is VERY important to enterprises/businesses etc. I dunno about you, but I don't see how that can really be a bad thing?
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Actually you can get Flight 7 at ftp://cdimage.ubuntulinux.org/cdimage/releases/6.0 6/flight-7
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Ah. XP. In case you're missing it, I've just installed the free VmWare Server Beta http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ on Dapper (AMD64), and am ?happily? running XP on it, mostly for running ham radio programs. I'm also going to set up a 32 bit Dapper VM for those few progs that don't compile or run well on the 64 bit platform.
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So far, so good. BTW, anyone trying to configure software RAID for their Dapper BETA install, you need to use the alternative install CD image, for the old-style install routine (no live disk built-in). A useful guide is here for setting up a RAID1 configuration
http://users.piuha.net/martti/comp/ubuntu/raid.ht
Enjoy...
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I happen to test around several boot problems the last few weeks I've summarized just here
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http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1062
Since these boot problems are quite difficult and probably mean a no go for anybody not a though expert I really hope they were fixed before release. It probably means another delay for a few days but think it's worth.
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Dapper 6.06 LTS Release Candidate is available now for download. This is very close to the final release & definitely worth checking out if you're impatient (3 days IS a long time!) http://releases.ubuntu.com/6.06/
Six extra weeks can help a lot.
Linux distributions are unlike most operating systems in that most of the software they use is already written before they start. Most of the work involves putting all of the pieces (known to work correctly on their own) together and ensuring that they still work. There's other things involved too, of course, but my point is that the bulk of Ubuntu is programs that were created as separate projects, and this is how Ubuntu is able to be put together so quickly.
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Almost all the issues I've had have been slowly worked out over time. I don't currently have any complaints. Running both KDE and Gnome.
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Edit the sources.list file. Put this in it:Run the following commands:
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Then reboot
Done!
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I think the wpa is better than windows actually - I can hot-undock my dell d800 and the first screen I get is the keyring prompt for the password so it can login to my wpa connection. I can do whatever, come back and hot-dock and my wired is up after a second or two. Just my experience, though.
I have SuSE Linux "Professional" boxen that I have to maintain from a mirror of SuSE's updates because they dropped active support after 18 months and took the files off of their update servers after 3 years. Given that's less than the mean time between reboots that I'd expect for an enterprise system, that was a big mistake on their part; they'll never get a red cent from me again.
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I know suse 10.1 doesn't support the Broadcom 43xx :( , but if you go to kernel.org the latest stable release finnally supports it. It seems I have been jumping trying to get drivers, for the last few years know they are finally getting within reach.
Count me in as well. I've been running it on my gateway laptop for 3-4 months and haven't had a problem, in fact with the inclusion of the broadcom wireless driver in the kernel I've had less problems as I don't have to use NDIS wrapper. All the software packages I use work fine (better than the last release even). The only problem with install I had was the sound "not working", which involved me opening up alsamixer (open terminal type alsamixer) then muting (I think it was mute not unmute) the external amp channel ('m' key does muting), and then it worked. That was the only thing that took me time to figure out (and I've had to do that since previous releases). I have been super happy with this release and haven't missed windows one bit on my laptop.
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I'm just praying that they're going to fix my top 3 bugs: 1) KVM switch support. When you switch away from Ubuntu and back - The mouse goes NUTS. This is apparently caused by mouse protocol issues and had workarounds in Breezy Badger & Worked just fine in Hoary. Nothing seems to work to fix this problem for me. in Dapper. :(
2) Windows network printer support. This simply doesn't work. At all.
3) Windows network fileshare support. This is pretty flakey right now. It seems to work really well if you're looking for a share on a 95/98/ME machine, but NT/2000/XP Not very reliable. I guess the workaround is to setup the share on the Ubuntu machine, but I like to be able to go any direction I need to at the time, you know?
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Can't comment about sentral auth or distributed, but just apt-get install ltsp-server-standalone and you'v got the PXE boot diskless terms.
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I have used Linux on and off since 1998 and Kubuntu Breezy was the biggest aggravation since Redhat 5.2. The network didn't work properly and the GUI config tool was useless I had to fuck around a lot to convince it to use the right network card (I've got ethernet and wireless, wanted to use ethernet, it decided to connect to my neighbour's WLAN instead). That sort of annoyance hasn't happened to me since Redhat 6.0, ethernet has just worked automatically without any user intervention, which is the whole bloody point of DHCP. I picked the ethernet card at installation too, Breezy just didn't believe that I wanted that and changed it for me. If I'd have wanted Win98-style crap decisions I would have installed Win98.
Hi,
The Ubuntu drop is native; the machines dual boot after it's all over.
The (very) rough details of how to do it are:
1. Grub for Windows and an initrd image are pushed to the Windows Box.
2. The Windows box is rebooted into Linux, and mounts an nfs share, which contains enough stuff to get most of the install working. The hard drive has its NTFS partition resized, leaving space for the Linux drop.
3. The Linux partitions are created in the newly created free space, and then Linux is set up, with the majority of the packages sourced from an Ubuntu mirror (we proxy through Squid, though as we had some snags using apt-proxy) with a custom pre-seed file.
That's the basics. One of the reasons we need to be able to be able to easily control which o/s to boot into is because most of the PCs run Windows during the day (they are almost all Lab resource workstations at the Uni where I work), and there's a desire to run a Beowulf like setup, out of hours, and during holidays.
We did try FAI, but because of the Windows infrastructure, we can't run a DHCP/TFTP setup, and booting from a floppy on each workstation was too hideous a concept. Also, FAI is a cryptic as a cryptic thing on a particularly cryptic day, and is horrendous (IMHO) to set up.
So far, none of it is documented (at all!) but we will be publishing a "how we did it" once the dapper drop is deployed. Right now, I'm not sure where, but it'll prolly go through the Ubuntu website, somewhere or another.
There have been two of us *involved* in getting it all sorted, but to be honest, I can only bathe in the reflected glory of my colleague at work, because it is he who has been the driving force behind this, and it is he who has carried out the vast majority of the (brain) work. I have been peripheral in this process.
I may have been drunk when I wrote this.
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