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Ubuntu 6.06 'Dapper Drake' Released
BBSeXoDuS writes "Ubuntu Dapper Drake has been finally been released. Run on over to the download site while it's still hot. From the announcement: 'Ubuntu 6.06 LTS introduces functionality that simplifies common Linux server deployment processes. For system administrators setting up large numbers of web, mail and related servers, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS offers the fastest and most consistent path to deployment, combined with the availability of global commercial support where needed.' "
It is... *sniffs delicately*... brown?
OK, we got the post of "almost" released, and I was waiting for the "released" post!
Anyway, I moved to the 6.06 RC from Breezy 5.10 and it was smooth. My laptop is loving the new Network Manager and updated Xorg with Gnome 2.0. It is a very nice package. I think Ubuntu will be on the forefront of competitive alternative OS's to Windows, especially if Vista keeps slipping!
Bother. I just installed Ubuntu a few days ago. Now I'll have to test its upgrade procedure :-)
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To convince your friends to try it, order 10 PC-edition CD's delivered at your door for free and give them away to people mildly interested.
It's live-CD installer style. Will probably impress many.
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
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So what software versions are supported by Dapper out of the box? Theres Gnome 2.14, Xorg 7?
Anyone know of a list?
For those of you dreading a long, drawn-out upgrade process, Ubuntu can upgrade using update-manager from many previous Debian builds. It's a seamless transition that can run in the background while you continue to work. One (count 'em) reboot is required, and you're done.
Congrats to the Dapper team.
At last it is on Slashdot. I've been refreshing the front page all day:) And no, I am not a sad sad geek. Ok, maybe a little:)
I have been running it on my dell b120 for a week with no problems
I already fill my functionality needs with RHEL and CentOS but it would be nice if this release of ubuntu could perform the same tasks (plus comercial support) and on top of that "looks good" and is easy to use. This will surely raise the bar even higher than already set by Fedora5.
The best test environment is production. - Me
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As a Dapper user since before it was cool I'd like to warn everyone using Apple products, especially iBooks and other slightly more supported hardware, against upgrading just yet. A severe bug was introduced having to do with the ATI cards in laptops on May 29 that causes persistant systems freezes. (Why would you upgrade all of xorg two days before release?) The errors are unrecoverable and require a system reboot. There hasn't been much in the way of response, as everyone seems to be celebrating the release of Dapper.
More information can be found in the forums and launchpad.net.
What if the entire Universe were a chrooted environment with everything symlinked from the host?
After installing dapper, I highly reccommend grabbing easyubuntu - it's a little package to get mp3s, wmvs, flash, java, crappy non-free nvidia/ati drivers etc all automagically installed.
Takes one of the niggles out of ubuntu.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
Hmm, the servers seem to be a bit... slow for some reason. Even mcs.anl.gov. That says something!
Heh, I'm sitting here on my laptop at USENIX, waiting for the talk to start. How many of you out there are doing the same?
This is the beginning of the end for Fedora. Red Hat really shot itself in the foot with the dividing of its distro. It projected an image that Red Hat wasn't really willing to eat its own dog food. Canonical has one distro and one distro that it "stands" by for production use. A former Red Hat user.
More useful information for geeks... although the support is indeed the real news.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/releasenotes/606
I actually managed to fully upgrade from breezy (5.10) to dapper (6.06) without having to wipe the system. Of all the distros I have tried I have never used (IMHO) one that had such a painless upgrade process for major revisions.
They are doing a really great job on this.
this release of an operating system in terms of quality , bugs removed and security is the best for the computer enviroment since microsoft launched windows 98
Upgraded from latest Breezy to Dapper earlier today. Only had to download 594MB of archives, and it took 95 minutes in total (download+unpacking/configuring).
Belief is the currency of delusion.
Thanks but I plan to let the servers cool down for a few days before I hit them.
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Having used Dapper for the last few months as a desktop user, I can say its a pretty neat system, but carries a few flaws. It boots far quicker than Breezy, seems to close down faster as well, has a smartend orange look (albeit resembling Vista a little but dumping that uniform Brown look for good), while the new shutdown dialog is quite cool. It remains the free easy-to-use distro of choice, at least for me.
So what sucks? SAMBA's graphical configuration is still useless for setting up Linux-Windows shares. The new Gnome Screensaver actually seems a retrograde step, losing RSS, per-screensaver settings and several popular XScreensaver hacks - supposedly in the name of ease-of-use. I can imagine users will fall over themselves with hacks to get XScreensaver working again.
Simply use Update Manager. 5.10 will say that the new release 6.06 is now available, with a button that will download an upgrade tool that will handle the repository and package transitions plus the postinstall stuff for you in a safe manner. If you've been running a 6.06 beta, just download any new package updates. If you've updated the beta in the last two days, you're basically already running 6.06 LTS.
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If you're running a 6.06 beta, you don't have to do anything. Boot up, log in & wait for the update manager to let you know its finished updating.
If you're running 5.10 (or earlier), the short, easy instructions are available here - cli instructions are:
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
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amd64
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p.s. you're getting the Dekstop version here. Described thus on the download page:
It's no more brown ! It's orange ! There is even a Dapper Car ! Of course, this was before! If you look closely, you will see that the car has 4 wheels. This is not true anymore as we are now all using flying cars.
BTW, there's even Ubuntu in Belgium now...
Ploum.net.
You should be able to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list without any trouble. Change all instances of "breezy" to "dapper". Do an apt-get update and then an apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade.
I'm glad it has been finally been released.
This would surely help in these early days, when everything you need can be downloaded at one time, via bittorrent.
with the news of this release. This pleasantry comes with one caveat, however, and that is since 5.10, I have since bought a MacBook that runs OS X. I'm of the opinion that of all Linux distros, Ubuntu is the finest attempt at reaching the level of desktop maturity out of the box that OS X users currently enjoy. I think I may install it on my MacBook, but I'll have to check to ensure that 6.06 is compatible with Core Duo Intel motherboards.
Mmmmm, Burberry windows :-D
So I gave Ubuntu a shot with all the hype, and I must say I hate their package manager. I want to upgrade Firefox to 1.5.0.3 so I do a search with their utility (forget the name) and I can't find it. That makes a bit of sense as it was pretty new. I figure I'd get it directly from Mozilla, but first let me remove the old package. Can't do it, unless I want to remove all of Ubuntu desktop. Why would I want to remove all the desktop apps? What is this Microsoft? They have to bundle the browser? Just try and remove any application using their package manager. Pretty much everything that comes with Ubuntu is tied into that Ubuntu desktop app. So I end up having two of everything. How is that user friendly? Yes, I'm sure you can remove it by going command line. But for that I'll stick with Slackware. At least I know what to expect, I just thought I'd try this new fangled user-friendly distro.
Why no shill paragraph boasting about the latest review of Vista beta?
Congrats to Ubuntu and all the ubuntu-folk, however the only thing that's going to REALLY put a dent in windows is being AHEAD of the game, and that would mean XGL and compiz long before Vista comes out. And no txt file hacking in the terminal, either...... Just drag and drop or install automagically.
When is Linux going to be AHEAD of the other OSes? All my average-joe friends would switch now if XGL and compiz came pre-installed!
rhY
I hold very few opinions. I hold information based on observation and fact. If you wish to disagree, please use facts.
Any torrents out there?
Will my wireless G with WPA-PSK work on the liveCD? I've got a Dell 600m....I hate having to go upstairs and hook into the wired internet to be able to do anything.
Ubuntu Desktop is just a metapackage. It's safe to remove and will not affect anything. I stumbled on that one, too.
[RIAA] says its concern is artists. That's true, in just the sense that a cattle rancher is concerned about its cattle.
Do you still have to run the automatix script in order to getr all the media codecs, etc?
if (!signature) { throw std::runtime_error("No sig!"); }
Just like the subject says, while I've been using Dapper for the last few months, I would have to apt-get install openoffice.org and numerous other packages on several occasions. For some reason their update software would REMOVE them! I'm not sure if they were doing this to get their system to their idea of "pristine", but I found it extremely annoying.
I welcome this release, and keeping the packages I've installed.
Half the time I'm right, the other half you're wrong.
Red Hat drops their free version of Red Hat Linux. They had mind-share. They owned the grass roots Linux movement. They created a huge void.
:)
Debian is plugging along quietly producing a great, but somewhat difficult to use (for newbies and non-unix geeks) distro. Ubuntu comes along, works closely with the Debian project to produce a polished version. Now, we're back to the good old days of Linux
Red Hat *really* screwed-up, but I'm glad that Debian and Ubuntu have filled the void as they'll never pull a stunt like RH did.
I understand the major.minor.patch system. It makes sense to me. But I've always wondered what numbers like "6.06" are supposed to mean. Do we ignore leading zeros (i.e. 6.6 - 6th release of version 6)? Are we supposed to assume a separator (i.e. 6.0.6 - 6th bugfux of version 6)? Or is this a different system of some kind altogether? It's not just Ubuntu - Opera (and others) do this too.
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There was enough unnecessary Ubuntu sackriding going on in the editorial content for the Vista article, I think we can call this one a dupe.
This is great. I've been waiting for this. Now what is the best way to upgrade my two FC4 machines and one RH9? Can I install over top without any sort of reformatting?
apt-get dist-upgrade is better for upgrading between releases. It can handle situations where new dependencies have been added or old dependencies removed. apt-get upgrade is good for upgrades where dependencies don't change (like getting security updates for the stable release).
Well, I switched to Dapper Drake from Breezy Badger on April 14th. Breezy Badger had run flawless the entire time since it was released up until April 6th.. I then recieved an i915 irq wait error where X would crash and wouldn't come back up without a reboot. This would repeat itself every couple of days, and all the information I could find on it said that it was fixed in the kernel in January of 2005 by the Ubuntu devs. With no explanation of what caused the issue and with it already having been "resolved" 16 months before by the same team who produced my distro, I decided to switch to the (then) alpha of Dapper Drake. I haven't had the problem since.
This release is the most polished and the nicest version "out of the box" that the Ubuntu team has ever released. It's a fantastic distro and one that has worked amazingly well since the alpha versions with one major glaring exception. The printing subsystem is a giant leap backwards . Cups 1.2 seems to be a large part of the problem, with the Ubuntu/Gnome print manager as the the other part. I've lost my ability to print in duplex mode which worked in Warty, Hoary, and Breezy. Print jobs now print one page at a time (rather than one continuous feed), like it's sending a 30MB per page document to the printer. Some printers don't work at all anymore. We have a Cannon ImageRunner at work that you could identify as a "LaserJet 6". I've tried every which way to get that think to work (including trying different printer models and/or drivers) and print jobs will just spool indefinitely. Right click on a printer and go to properties and it takes 7-8 seconds with 100% CPU utilization before it opens (1-2 seconds with normal load under Breezy). I don't see how this made it out the door with the printing subsystem in this state.
Hopefully for others sakes, I'm just surrounded by the 4 or 5 models of HP and Cannon printers that suck with this version of Ubuntu and it's not a widespread issue. It's a huge disappointment and one that I hope they can fix in the coming months. Since this is my work machine, I was very excited about the 3 years of support on the desktop and I wanted to stick with this version of Linux for quite some time. Without a fix to these printing issues, it's going to be painful.
Just like the parent says - and to make sure there are no hitches, follow this order:
Update your sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
(reboot)
And you're all set. Painless.
Half the time I'm right, the other half you're wrong.
I have a laptop with a Broadcom 4306 and my AP is set for WPA-PSK (TKIP) and it works great with the new Network Manager (there were a couple of very minor gotchas that resolutions to are in the forums). The cool thing is that it now does WPA personal, enterprise (PEAP, LEAP, etc.), and WPA2, so it is ahead of Windows on this one.
You might want to verify your card is supported (there is also ndiswrapper to use windows drivers but it is a lot more hands-on) before installing, however. Hey, if they can do Broadcom's, they should be able to figure out anything.
[RIAA] says its concern is artists. That's true, in just the sense that a cattle rancher is concerned about its cattle.
Automatix has not been ported to Dapper yet. Use BUMPS. Its is simple and just works.
run the installer from your hard disk http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.htm l
I was going to get the torrent, but the Pirate Bay is down!
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Automatix is also highly talked about similar to easyubuntu but if you compare the features in easyubuntu.
Pick for yourself but after trying ubuntu and the multimedia fiasco trust me and WMF, you will want one of these.
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The big difference is that the distros you mentioned are RPM-based (Red Hat and a Red Hat knockoff) while Ubuntu uses debian-style packaging.
.debs, you might find this to be a significant issue.
If you are already familiar with RPM, or you want advanced architechture support not available with
I have to say, though, that Ubuntu is lightyears ahead of Red Hat (including Fedora) in terms of polish and hardware support. After spending a week hacking Fedora C5 to get wireless partially working on my laptop, I threw up my hands and installed breezy... which pretty much worked out of the box, done deal. The only parts I had to tinker with were 915resolution (10 minute fix to get maximum screen res, same as on Fedora) and WPA_supplicant (which is supposed to be working on Dapper, but I haven't tried it yet).
I'm sticking with RHEL on my big corporate server farms for now, because I understand its strengths (up2date rulez!) and weaknesses (bugzillas from end-users are consistently ignored). I'm running Ubuntu on the test servers and laptop, though, to get familiar with the system, and if it works out I'll think seriously about cutting the servers over too.
I know I may be hacked to pieces for asking this but here I go.... since I don't have a broadband connection to upgrade my previous version of Ubuntu (dial up is OUT of the question), is other way to upgrade to the new Ubuntu? By the way I installed it on a HP Pavillion ZE4300 and it worked like a charm!!!! If this keeps going I'm seriously thinking of dumping Windows and give it a good "vista" of the recycle bin :)
You are indeed missing something. The same CD now doubles as both an installation CD and a live CD. What's more, unlike ordinary Debian, the packages are right there on the CD; so you don't need a working internet connection just to install it.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
.torrent files are on all the mirrors. Well seeded and screaming fast right now.
No need to wait!
I tried installing Dapper on an external firewire drive about a month ago and it couldn't finish install (couldn't install bootloader). I found out this was a known issue.
Is it possible that this has been fixed? I want to give Linux a real world try by seeing if I can do my job in it for a week or so but I have a laptop with precious little space on my internal drive.
I don't have the one from today, but downloaded a live CD last week. Couldn't install it on the drive trying to do a manual partition because the partition editor was broken. Was this remedied in the last week? Did anyone else see this problem?
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Yeah Ubuntu is smooth as butter. Have been using it since Hoary and never reinstalled or had problems with it. To upgrade I just always did "apt-get dist-upgrade"
I've at least a dozen of original Ubuntu 5.04 CD-s over I've been giving to friends, family and so on.
:(
I was pretty excited since this is the first Linux distro that I could just boot and it gives me internet connectivity, nice true color desktop, firefox, irc and so on and so on right out of the box, without me touching anything.
It was relatively intuitive to use too.
Now however I downloaded the 6.06 ISO and it won't even run here anymore. It just run it, it shows the cursor and get stuck there forever.
I hope the next releases work better
(my system btw: Celeron 3GHz, 1GB RAM, Audigy 2, GeForce 4MX)
>> What's more, unlike ordinary Debian, the packages are right there on the CD; so you don't need a working internet connection just to install it.
You are wrong. Also Debian's installer CDs have the packages right there on the CD; in this respect Debian is just like Ubuntu. And both Debian and Ubuntu want to fetch the latest security updates from the Net right after installation -- so you're wrong also there. :-P
What? Ubuntu isn't mature enough to use its official logo on slashdot? We have to use Debian instead? (disclaimer: this is in no way negative toward Debian. Debian is great, fine, etc, etc.) Someone get the logo updated.
Well most people will have to update their apt-get sources.list. This is how:
/etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_bkup
/etc/apt/sources.list
Change your sources.list to reflect the sources.list as shown on [WWW] http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/6666:
sudo cp
Then:
sudo wget http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/d6666 -O
Save the file and then type this in a terminal:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
As much as I'm drooling at the prospect of upgrading to Dapper (Kubuntu), I can't understand why they keep pushing Adept as a package manager. Using the version shipped with 5.10, it seems like a defanged Synaptic...without the ability to see what files are installed with packages (which is helpful when you're trying to troubleshoot). Has Adept improved since then?
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. - Dorothy Parker
We need the cooperation of the video card companies. The only thing preventing what you describe is the lack of a Free Software driver for nvidia/ati cards.
I'm not sure about this, but it might be possible to reverse-engineer the proprietary drivers to see what they do, and build a Free Software driver based on that.
Compromising the principles of our community just to get more people into our community is pointless, though.
funniest thing i've seen all day. An I live in Texas
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
Friggin' XP asked for a reboot yesterday after installing the genuine windows advantage check whatever " critical update." WTF? XP might be ready for the desktop, but it's almost ready to be hurled against a hard surface too.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
One dead machine. I'm burning a rescue CD whilst typing this, should be able to get it back by removing anything to do with PCMCIA. But still, you get the level of annoyance.
Cheers,
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What is the official way for those with a pathological fear of the command line and/or a fixation on doing everything via the GUI ?
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
No, don't do that! The "Ubuntu Way" is to use the upgrade manager, it will take care of upgrading you safely from 5.10 to 6.06, with all the little hitches taken care of automatically.
I recognize people by their sigs. Is that a bad thing?
I have tried to install Ubuntu in the past, I think it was the Breeze version (about october last year) and everything was going smooth until the first reboot when everthing (I mean everything!) freezes when the splash image comes up. I tried it on another computer and the same thing happened. I later found out that it was because both computers have ATI graphic cards...Any word on this?
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. -- Carl Sagan Sh!fty
Will Update Manager be able to use CDs, for those with poor connectivity?
Just because you can't, doesn't mean you shouldn't.
From Annonymous Ubuntu user :)
Man you guys are good. Congrats! Great job. I think and hope that the world would appreciate your effort in adding another strong competitor to Windoz.
~Leo
Just stick the CD into the drive, it will ask if you want to upgrade (assuming you didn't mess with System/Preferences/Removable Media, I guess)
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
1. Doing an apt-get upgrade (as opposed to dist-upgrade) when upgrading the install to a new version is a recipe for disaster
2. Debian now recommend aptitude, not apt-get, to do dist-upgrades - it's smarter
3. In Ubuntu, dist-upgrade is deprecated (at least for newbies), read the upgrade guide. The Update Manger takes care of it automatically
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
Kubuntu 6.06 has also been released and is fully supported by Canonical. You can download it and order free Kubuntu CDs through Shipit.
Kubuntu features the latest version of the ever popular and advanced K Desktop Environment, which has killer apps such as the AmaroK music player, the Kaffeine movie player, the Konqueror file manager and web browser, and the KOffice suite.
Don't expect much help there. I hopped on to ask a question, and was greeted with "just ask it" when I pasted my issue, they threw a hissy and removed my ability to talk in the channel and it was only a few lines, I know better than to flood an irc channel.
Just a word of warning, try forums or some other resource if you run into an issue.
at the bottom of http://www.ubuntu.com/download you wanna change this:
/ dvd// dvd/
http://torrent.ubuntu.com/releases/breezy/release
to this:
http://torrent.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/release
i figured it'd really torque me off if i downloaded 3+g only to notice after the fact that it's the previous release - so i tried posting a bug, but it just kept replying twith the oh-so-useful "an error occurred".
oh well - emailed 'em, i'm sure it's somewhere in their queue. maybe posting it here will help somebody out, maybe not.
Whew...now that that is behind us, let's start the countdown to Edgy Eft.
> Run on over to the download site while it's still hot.
While it is 1.4 K/s hot?
(Can't use a torrent on my network).
The UI is ugly, slow, and poorly designed.
And when I say ugly, I mean UGLY.
REALLY, REALLY ugly.
Think of the worst-looking, slowest UI from a Windows 98-era hobby-project Visual Basic program that you've ever seen.
Now, imagine if it were even uglier and slower.
There, now you have Cinelerra.
I'm not trolling. If you think I am, then you've obviously never used this program. The UI is the equivilent of a website with heavy use of frames, blink tags, scrolling marquees, and "under construction" animated gifs. Seriously.
Don't believe me? OK then, I'll show you. There, that screenshot is a pretty good representation of what you'll see when you first open the program. Note the purple, teal, and tan color scheme. That's not a window manager theme, that's just this program. It always looks like that. Ugh.
Well, Kubuntu is blue
When I was updating, I had a problem that the update option stopped appearing in update-manager.
There's a bunch of possible reasons. One may be that the mirrors haven't updated yet, in which case you'll have to wait. My problem was that when I rejected the update for the first time, update-manager for some reason stops displaying the update for 24 hours or something. (Devs, this isn't very smart behaviour...)
I found the way to solve this issue on the forums:
Run:
sudo update-manager -d
(I'm not sure what this does, and update-manager shockingly lacks a manpage, but it worked for me.)
I set up a MythTV server using the "Breezy Badger" release not too long ago. It's still fairly clean, so I can fairly easily just wipe the system and install 6.06 from scratch. But, I'm wondering if this is really necessary.
What are the pros and cons of installing from scratch versus an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on my existing box?
Ubuntu's Live CDs have always sucked. I downloaded the Hoary Live CD and it never seemed to work properly. Today, I spent all morning downloading the Dapper CD...twice! Both times the ISO crapped out on me and didn't boot properly on start up. It displayed an insert curser and hung for 2 minutes. Then it went to Grub. I am now using Bittorrent to download the alternate install CD which hopefully will work.
I love Ubuntu, but this live cd graphical installer, IMHO, is a complete and utter failure. Shame on Ubuntu for putting this kind of crap out. I've wasted half a day trying to get the CD to work. I'm not using weird hardware...I have a common Asus Mobo and an Athlon 64 chip. There is no reason for this not to work. I consider myself a sophistocated Linux user, and if a newb had to go through all this trouble, they would have quit by now. Arg.
I am usually an Ubuntu FanBoy, so please, feel free to mod me down as a Troll. But its true. Dapper seems to be sucking pretty hard right now.
Good call. I've been trying to download this since it was released this morning using the best GPL download manager I've found for OS X (Camino, lol!) but I keep getting cut off/super slow downloads (=7kbps). This is faaantastic.
Only yesterday I convinced my officemates to try Ubuntu as our new server's OS... We spent the day playing with it, and this morning we noticed the new release. Hand + Forehead action ensued. Thankfully the upgrade process doesn't look too difficult... once the upgrade gets released to the channel.
Why would anyone put Lin-sux on a Mac? Don't you value things like security, speed, usability, consistency and sheer power? DOn't you like using an OS that wont get you labelled a communist and a pirate?
Christ, sometimes I think Apple should only sell their hardware to people who meet a minimum IQ level.
I decided to liveboot the cd just now on my el-cheapo Compaq pressario 4000 laptop expecting a load of problems and it booted right up.
My system is a hackers nightmare.
The intel based wifi, the winsoundcard, touchpad, and even the mmc card reader works!
I switched to FreeBSD from Linux around 2001 after countless alpha and beta quality linux distro's that were supposed to be stable kept fustrating me. Isn't this why I left Windows and yet w2k doesn't have this problem??
But so far ubuntu beat my expectations.
Even the crappy intel based 945G graphics chip is smooth with the video with great color and zero clipping. My athlonXP+2400 with its nvidia 6600 is a little clippy with video under non ubuntu distro's.
I only found one bug that is the fault of compaq since it uses a PS/2 filter in software to save $.15. The text will move randomly across this post as I type but I have seen this with a default install of XP. There is a software linux version of a ps/2 filter I have to install but other than that its flawless. Good work
http://saveie6.com/
I wonder if anyone knows why burning CDs is such an issue with this particular release.
I was finally able to burn the alternate ISO to CD in Linux using Breezy's Nautilus Burning Utility. Simple as right clicking on the disk image and selecting burn to CD. Why on earth I couldn't create a disk image under XP is beyond me. I used three different ISO burning programs with no luck. This is a serious issue if we want Windows XP users to switch over to Linux and Ubuntu. I think a powerful GPL ISO burning program for Windows should be linked to in the download section. A lot of people only have access to the OEM version of Nero and not the more powerful Nero Burning ROM...so, something needs to be done. And its not as if I haven't burned ISOs before, I've done tons! I did 8 CDs for Debian for chirsts sake, with no hitches.
So, is there a special burn procedure that needs to be used for these CDs under XP???
I visited release.ubuntu.com and found this
SITE DOWN - WILL BE UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITHIN A DAY OR TWO
In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Unitied Kingdom Metropolitan Police showed a search warrant to employers of Canonical Ltd. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Canonical Ltd and was directed at Ubuntu. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, infringement of patents held by Microsoft, assisting piracy by distributing software freely, and theft of intellectual property from the SCO unix group.
The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the Ubuntu servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the racks were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the racks, including ubuntuforums, to silence any debate.
The south african entrepreneur and space tourist Mark Shuittleworth was taken in for questioning by the police, under more serious allegations of creating Ubuntu linux to harm American business interests in the companies Microsoft and Apple.
Not that anyone should listen to an Anonymous Coward, but everyone here has a financial interest in the success of Ubuntu. How about everyone contact their local news station with links and such, promoting it as the Windows-killer. Give Rick Romero something new to talk about.
Trailer parks across America will be trying out this new "oo-bun-too".
The first Linux install EVER for me to properly detecect my mouse, video card, lan, and screen sceen resolution and I tried Mandrake back in the day when you needed top know sectors and cylinder numbers, and Ubutu 5.04 two different times, this one just works, yah! It's the first Linux I would recomend to a Windoze or Mac user. While I still need my Mac for Final Cut Pro and Photoshop and Windoze for games I think this is a big leap forward for Linux on the desktop, congrats to the developers for a fine effort.
Tired of all the isms, don't exploit people as an employer, or a government, mmmmK?
while (!asleep()) sheep++
The dpkg --configure -a did, as it seemed, fix the PCMCIA hang, and all I had to do to fix the video problem was apt-get install nvidia-glx. Relatively painless upgrade with minimal downtime. I'm happy.
What does the "LTS" stand for?
Here is the article from ComputerWorld: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=12&articleId=9000 831
From http://www.ubuntu.com/news/606released:
:-)
The Server Edition of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS includes a unique mechanism to set up a standardized, certified, and supported LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server with a single command.
What a great idea. As a newb-ish Linux user this would be a terrific relief - I'm assuming it will be installed with excellent security defaults too.
Suggested names for this feature:
- LAMPlite
- HeadLAMP
- The LAMP Button
- LAMP switch
- LAMPoon
- LAMPon? (perhaps not
Kudos to the Ubuntu team. Another thoughtful feature, done well.
Sadly, it doesn't seem so, although if you stick the CD into the drive and register it as a source, then cancel Synaptic popping up, and then run the release migration tool, it might pull the unchanged files from the CD. I didn't get time to run this scenario in VMware, though.
Ati has some serious bugs with their linux drivers, at least for my hardware configuration (9600 (agp8x) on Intel 845 (agp4x)). DRI freezes X. have to reset. I know this cause i've tried suse 10.1, kororaa, kubuntu5.10 and ditto 6.06, with all available configurations. OSS driver doesnt freeze, but no DRI, no tv. Ive installed kubuntu with fglrx, xinerama overscans monitor and i cant see. no way to change resolution. In suse 10.1, xinerama works just fine. A similar bug in xinerama existed also in kubuntu5.10(there was no way to move to second display). So, what would take to a man to watch movies in his tv? buy a new computer? switch to windows? switch to suse?
Where in the world is the SPARC support, especially for the T1 Niagara, that was promised for 6.06 just this last week?
"EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! Make sure you type dist-upgrade rather than upgrade . The process will totally hose your machine and render it *completely unbootable* otherwise."
Yes, ubuntu and debian share lots of packages.
But the approach is radically different and differences between them are growing day by day.
On the other hand, where is that support?. In spain where I work for there is nobody who works for Canonical (as far as I know) so if you want an onsite support you're dead.
Long way to go for canonical to be a real competitor of Red hat and Suse (from the commercial and support point of view, not from the technical side)
When a ubuntu topic in Slashdot?
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