Ubuntu 6.06 'Dapper Drake' Released 435
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.' "
Been there done that! (Score:3, Informative)
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!
To convince your friends (Score:5, Informative)
It's live-CD installer style. Will probably impress many.
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ [ubuntu.com]
Seamless Upgrade (Score:5, Informative)
Congrats to the Dapper team.
Re:At last! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Blast (Score:5, Informative)
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
Re:Oh, the humanity! (Score:4, Informative)
And sorta orange. But mostly brown.
Protip: Make your GRUB brown, too!
and you, too can have a colorful GRUB that matches your OS.
Careful when Upgrading (Score:5, Informative)
More information can be found in the forums [ubuntuforums.org] and launchpad.net [launchpad.net].
EasyUbuntu. (Score:5, Informative)
Takes one of the niggles out of ubuntu.
Re:Software versions? (Score:5, Informative)
Release notes (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/releasenotes/606 [ubuntu.com]
Breezy to Dapper quick'n'painless. (Score:3, Informative)
I'll miss the constant updates... (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:Upgrade Procedure? (Score:5, Informative)
torrents (Score:5, Informative)
Alternate (amd64) [iu.edu]
Alternate (i386) [iu.edu]
Alternate (powerpc) [iu.edu]
Desktop (amd64) [iu.edu]
Desktop (i386) [iu.edu]
Desktop (powerpc) [iu.edu]
Server (amd64) [iu.edu]
Server (i386) [iu.edu]
Server (powerpc) [iu.edu]
Re:Upgrade Procedure? (Score:4, Informative)
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 [ubuntu.com] - cli instructions are:
BitTorrent Links (Score:4, Informative)
i386 [task.gda.pl]
amd64 [task.gda.pl]
powerpc [task.gda.pl]
p.s. you're getting the Dekstop version here. Described thus on the download page:
Re:Upgrade Procedure? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I'll miss the constant updates... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Hot servers? (Score:2, Informative)
Here:
http://torrent.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/release
Re:Where's the DVD release? (Score:5, Informative)
Good luck!
Re:To convince your friends (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Why I don't use it (Score:2, Informative)
There's no harm in removing that package (even though it's not very user friendly and doesn't tell you)
On the plus side though, Firefox 1.5.0.3 is already installed!
Re:Why I don't use it (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Crying Shame! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Why I don't use it (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:Crying Shame! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:version numbering schemes (Score:4, Informative)
The previous Ubuntu version was released in 2005 October and its version was
(wait for it)
"5.10"!
The warts on the Drake... (Score:3, Informative)
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.
First distro that worked with mine (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:I'll miss the constant updates... (Score:2, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt [wikipedia.org]
Re:Automatix?? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:EasyUbuntu. (Score:5, Informative)
Just checked here [freecontrib.org]:
Get EasyUbuntu!
Stable Release
The 3.0 release supports:
* Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu
* Breezy/Dapper
* x86/powerpc/amd64
Re:I'll miss the constant updates... (Score:2, Informative)
You still need to add it to your list to startup programs in Sessions for it to do anything useful. Like I said, not exactly difficult, but might be confusing for some users - a solution which allowed you to switch between the two screensaver packages and activated them would have been better.
BitTorrent (Score:4, Informative)
No need to wait!
Re:Been there done that! (Score:1, Informative)
Comment removed (Score:3, Informative)
You have to update your sources 1st (Score:2, Informative)
Change your sources.list to reflect the sources.list as shown on [WWW] http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/6666 [ubuntu-nl.org]:
sudo cp
Then:
sudo wget http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/d6666 [ubuntu-nl.org] -O
Save the file and then type this in a terminal:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
Re:Careful when Upgrading (Score:3, Informative)
Re:To convince your friends (Score:3, Informative)
I don't know if your problem was real or not but I know that mine was: I requested a stack of 10 CD sets when they did this the first time. I was excited because it was based on debian, implying stability, yet had a LiveCD and a nice set of apps bundled.
Unfortunately, I tried it on three different machines, one of which actually used to run debian, and all of which are capable of CD booting. NONE OF THEM MANAGED TO COMPLETE THE BOOT PROCESS. I promptly threw the CDs away, because they would do far more harm than good on the Linux evangelism front.
Well, now I have dapper drake on my laptop. It runs great. The installer is still stupid though; If you elect to partition the entire drive "automatically" it automatically creates a single partition. This would probably be fine for SCSI, but this is IDE, and they could trivially detect that if they cared. Since it's a 30GB disk, this put the boot files past the 512 cylinder boundary, and it wouldn't boot! Great work, kids. After reinstalling, this time manually partitioning with a /boot in the P-1 slot, at the beginning of the disk of course, it works great. But the installer is still stupid, and while I can give the LiveCD to people to check out, I'm going to have to help them install if they decide they're that interested.
Still, the fact that it actually works now is a big improvement.
Re:torrents (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Blast (Score:3, Informative)
I gave technical advice for a technical forum. Here's how you do it if you're non-techie:
1) Boot.
2) Go to update manager. It will tell you there's a new release.
3) Choose upgrade.
Can you tell me any other operating system that's easier to upgrade between major releases? I seriously fucking doubt it.
Looking over your comments history, I'd say you deserve my nickname more then I do (have you read my diary yet?)
Re:torrents (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Prematurely released :( ? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:You have to update your sources 1st (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Back to the good old days (Score:3, Informative)
Not quite. Actually, they renamed it "Fedora". But that's too much for some to understand ...
Kubuntu (Score:4, Informative)
Kubuntu features the latest version of the ever popular and advanced K Desktop Environment [kde.org], which has killer apps such as the AmaroK [kde.org] music player, the Kaffeine [sourceforge.net] movie player, the Konqueror [konqueror.org] file manager and web browser, and the KOffice [koffice.org] suite.
Re:Careful when Upgrading (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Careful when Upgrading (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Automatix (Score:4, Informative)
various commands to say 'yes' to possibly dangerous operations.
The #ubuntu denizens recommend againsy using it.
Re:torrents (Score:4, Informative)
Easyubuntu [freecontrib.org] is a better option.