Feeling a Bit Dapper
Allison Randall: I just installed Ubuntu 6.06 ("Dapper Drake") on my shiny new linux desktop. I’m quite happy with it. It seems almost too easy. X works, the sound works. I didn’t spend hours tweaking the configuration. It just works.
The new install surprised me. I booted off of “live” CD, saw that things were working, and went ahead with the install. As I knew that was coming, that didn’t surprise me. What did surprise me was the that at the end, I was simply informed that I could reboot into the system I had just installed.
What hadn’t occurred to me — even though it is obvious in retrospect — is that I had a functional Ubuntu system available to me — even during the install.
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I had a very similar experience ([link]).
Being able to run off of the Live CD and then boot into the newly installed OS is like having almost zero downtime!!!!
Its fantastic. I had never used a Debian distro seriously at work or home. Ubuntu’s a joy. With Long Term Support I hope to enjoy Dapper Drake for some period of time!!!@#
Posted by Elliot Metsger atI downloaded the live CD, but it seemed to want to overwrite my breezy install. I used the GUI upgrade manager instead. I’m halfway through right now, and I’m typing this from the dapper-installed Firefox 1.5.
Posted by Robert Sayre at
I did the ole apt-get dist-upgrade and it worked fine (with the exception of uninstalling OpenOffice for some completely unknown reason). Was able to answer email and write some code through the entire process. In contrast, I just created a new WinXP VMWare image. Burnt up a couple of hours before the system was usable.
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Yeah, that surprised me too but I think the ‘surprise’ (using Live Ubuntu as installer platform) will throw off naive users.
Posted by Don Park at
Giving Ubuntu another go with Dapper Drake
Just 3 days after trying (and failing) to install Ubuntu’s Breezy Badger (v5.10) on my VIA EPIA ME6000, Dapper Drake was released (v6.06), so tonight I’m giving it another go. In order to sway things in Ubuntu’s favor, I’ve...Excerpt from Justinsomnia at
As awesome as Ubuntu sounds, it’ll likely be awhile until I start running it myself. My next computer purchase is likely to be an Intel Mac mini for the purposes of testing fat binaries, and eventually perhaps for acting as a media center, and the computer after that, probably will run Solaris. If someone figures out how to get Intel Macs triple booting OS X, Windows, and Ubuntu without problems, now I have a reason to run Ubuntu (though still likely just for cross-platform testing). But really, Ubuntu seems to me to be intended for use as a desktop, and when it comes to desktops, as far as I’m concerned, they serve one of 4 major purposes: internet stuffs (browser, feed reader, email client), development, media, and gaming. Excepting being more open and free, Ubuntu still offers me no sufficiently significant advantages (that I know of) over OS X in any of those categories. It might win some points in the development category, but OS X still has the TextMate trump card, and until I find a better open source text editor than TextMate, I’m not likely to be making any switches.
So yeah, for the moment, I would be one of those Mac fan-boys Mark’s referring to I guess.
Posted by Bob Aman atUbuntu is great and Dapper Drake makes it even better!
I upgraded to Dapper and was pleasantly surprised to find that my system is much more responsive than with Breezy. Firefox seems especially snappier. I really like the new GNOME deskbar applet too.
Posted by Marc atYes, Ubuntu Dapper is just about the best out there at the moment. It has great potential to one day be one of the main OS’es...
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Whatever you do, for God’s sakes, don’t tell the Mac fanboys!
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