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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.' "
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!
Orange. And brown.
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/
If you mod this up, your slashdot background will turn into a beautiful sunset!
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.
Bother. I just installed Ubuntu a few days ago. Now I'll have to test its upgrade procedure :-)
:-)
I've been tracking Dapper since flight 3, its as easy as:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -yqq dist-upgrade
(and wait)
Alternatively, you could just boot & wait - the updater will update everything in the background for you
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
And sorta orange. But mostly brown.
Protip: Make your GRUB brown, too!
and you, too can have a colorful GRUB that matches your OS.
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.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubun tu
Look at the table on that page.
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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p.s. you're getting the Dekstop version here. Described thus on the download page:
And I'm glad Ubuntu is orange and brown - a very welcome change from that oh-so-2000's blue.
Several others have started using it, I believe Terracotta will be to 2007 what blue was for 2000.
The DVD links on the standard Ubuntu download page all point to breezy releases. I did some poking around and found: http://torrent.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/release/ dvd
Good luck!
ubuntu-desktop is just a metapackage that has dependencies to basically all desktop apps that are installed by default in Ubuntu (so that for example if you do a minimal install you can later on just do a "desktop installation" later on very easily (e.g. sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop). So you can remove ubuntu-desktop safely and everything will work just fine (which you would find out also if you read the package description of gnome-desktop).
Also, one particularly useful feature I've found with ubuntu/debian package handling is in cases where you need/want a slightly newer version of an application that's not yet available in the repositories with the version you want, you can do "sudo apt-get build-dep foobar" and then very easily compile your foobar yourself without having to worry about finding every header package that you need for compiling the app (something I find incredibly annoying on e.g. RHEL). Also, you can for most of the time install debian unstable packages as well if you're very impatient with getting packages not yet available for ubuntu.
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.
It is very simple: 6.06 = 2006 June
...
The previous Ubuntu version was released in 2005 October and its version was
(wait for it)
"5.10"!
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 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.
Procrastinating life a way at a rapid rate of speed.
ATI Mobility 7500 Graphics Card
.deb package) I end up trying to build and install the source code. This rarely "just works". This is the biggest pain in the ass. I am a software engineer and am quite familar with makefiles and compilers, etc. But sometimes after a long day of solving problems I just want to come home and not have a fight with my Linux box. There are several software apps that looked cool as a moose, but I couldn't get them to build and install from source.
Just could not get the DRI drivers to work right under Breezy 5.10, until about a month ago when Breezy released an Xorg update, then things went smoothly. Under Dapper things are even better, woooo hooo!
Wi-Fi
Wireless and wired networking was flaky. Was constantly dropping to a term session to restart or reconfigure networking. The manual setup for WPA access points sucked. All is forgiven in Dapper, since the new network manager rocks!
Sound
Could not get Breezy to record sound from my line-in at all. This sucked. Haven't tried this yet on Dapper
DVD
Playing DVDs was a bitch to figure out way back when (when I was a real newbie). Ripping DVDs on the other hand still sucks. DVD rip is cool, but combining ripped tracks into one new DVD title then burning back to a disc just doesn't work under linux. DVDAuthor is the best thing I have seen, but it doesn't work and is a pain to use, even the GUI for it, QDVDAuthor, sucks.
Windows Programs
I have several applications in Windows that I just need to run. I bought Crossover Office from codeweavers and this gets me several programs that I need, but falls short. Granted, this is a bit outside the scope, but it gets honorable mention.
Automount
Settings in my fstab file just get ignored. I have a FAT32 partition that I use to share crap between my Windows NTFS boot and my Linux boot. I added all the appropriate settings to fstab, but Gnome (or whoever) still mounts the FAT32 partition as read-only even though I commanded it to allow user mounts and RW mode.
Installing Any Application From Source
Since many applications out there only exist in source code (i.e. no
It is also worth mentioning that I started reacquainting myself with Linux about a year or so ago after abandoning Red Hat in the late 90's. Back in the 90's Linux was a real pain in the ass, hell getting my printer to do anyting back then before CUPS was like brain surgery... So I still have the stigma here and there. I have said this before, and I will say it again. Linux is today what Windows 95/98 was back when it came out, that is, for the most part things work, but every now and then you have to fight with something in a terminal window. I think the next 5 years will bring Linux to level that makes Windows look like a costly alternative to Linux, rahter than the view of Linux as a free alternative to Windows.
.torrent files are on all the mirrors. Well seeded and screaming fast right now.
No need to wait!
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.
Please, it's not as if theres any need or reason for rivalry.
Both can co-exist, and it's only childish coments such as these that encourage the rabid fanboyism that this community suffers from.
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.
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.)