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.' "

Been there done that!

[s31523]

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!

To convince your friends

[Tribbin]

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/ [ubuntu.com]

Seamless Upgrade

[old_skul]

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.

Re:At last!

[exit3219]

Yeah, the news is a little late. It has appeared on the first mirrors about 3 hours ago. BTW, Kubuntu is out there as well: http://kubuntu.com/download.php [kubuntu.com] (I wouldn't bother downloading it right now, since there's a huge congestion on the servers. I hope it'll be gone in a day or two.)

Re:Blast

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

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 :-)

Re:Oh, the humanity!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah... it's still pretty brown.
And sorta orange. But mostly brown.

Protip: Make your GRUB brown, too!

sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst.bak
sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

Change the "# Pretty colours" section to:

color white/brown white/red

and you, too can have a colorful GRUB that matches your OS.

Careful when Upgrading

[goofyheadedpunk]

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 [ubuntuforums.org] and launchpad.net [launchpad.net].

EasyUbuntu.

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

After installing dapper, I highly reccommend grabbing easyubuntu [freecontrib.org] - 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.

Re:Software versions?

[henriquemaia]

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubun tu [distrowatch.com] Look at the table on that page.

Release notes

[soboroff]

More useful information for geeks... although the support is indeed the real news.

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/releasenotes/606 [ubuntu.com]

Breezy to Dapper quick'n'painless.

[eddy]

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).

I'll miss the constant updates...

[kkiller]

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.

Re:Upgrade Procedure?

[nhaines]

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.

torrents

[glarvat]

Here are the links to the torrents from one of mirrors:

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?

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

For those of us who are running 5.10 or one of the 6.06 betas, what is the upgrade procedure?

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:

1) Change your sources.list to reflect the sources.list as shown on [ubuntu-nl.org]http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/6666 [ubuntu-nl.org]
2)Save the file and then type this in a terminal:
        sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

BitTorrent Links

[solferino]

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:

The desktop CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of CD is what most people will want to use. You will need at least 192MB of RAM to install from this CD.

Re:Upgrade Procedure?

[SStrungis]

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.

Re:I'll miss the constant updates...

[kkiller]

Err, not exactly. I have that package installed, and it does not run at startup by default. Sure, getting it to do the latter isn't exactly hard, but it's not out of the box either - and will surely become a subject of the Automatix/EasyUbuntu scripts out there.

Re:Hot servers?

[fimbulvetr]

Umm, that's a link to breezy (5.10)

Here:

http://torrent.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/release/ dvd/ [ubuntu.com]

Re:Where's the DVD release?

[Ossifer]

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 [ubuntu.com]

Good luck!

Re:To convince your friends

[EnderGT]

Dude, stick a "NSFW" on that, will ya!

Re:Why I don't use it

[mat1t]

The package isn't a real program. It's a meta package to group other packages together. It's best use is allowing you to change between ubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu and edubuntu.

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

[kkiller]

Ubuntu-desktop is just a meta-package - it installs default ubuntu desktop components. It doesn't have to be there, inless you are using a development version and wish to follow changes to the defaults as they are made. You can happily remove it if you need to.

Re:Crying Shame!

[mat1t]

bring on the Edgy Eft [ubuntu.com]

Re:Why I don't use it

[mz2]

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.

Re:Crying Shame!

[VP]

That's the next version, where all the new "experimental" stuff is going to be included [newsforge.com]. And it will still come out before Vista...

Re:version numbering schemes

[jwd-oh]

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"!

The warts on the Drake...

[Azar]

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.

First distro that worked with mine

[charnov]

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.

Re:I'll miss the constant updates...

[tokul]

> Whats an Eft?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt [wikipedia.org]

Re:Automatix??

[delire]

You are best to use Easy Ubuntu [freecontrib.org], reccommended by Ubuntu developers and package maintainers over competing scripts.

Re:EasyUbuntu.

[syphax]

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...

[kkiller]

*sigh*

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

[tweakt]

.torrent files are on all the mirrors. Well seeded and screaming fast right now.
No need to wait!

Re:Been there done that!

[slack_prad]

yes it's gnome 2.14.1

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You have to update your sources 1st

[Kancer]

Well most people will have to update their apt-get sources.list. This is how:

Change your sources.list to reflect the sources.list as shown on [WWW] http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/6666 [ubuntu-nl.org]:

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_bkup

Then:

sudo wget http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/d6666 [ubuntu-nl.org] -O /etc/apt/sources.list

Save the file and then type this in a terminal:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

Re:Careful when Upgrading

[goofyheadedpunk]

No, it's the free xorg driver that's barfing.

Re:To convince your friends

[drinkypoo]

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

[kusanagi374]

What is the alternate ISO for? I've tried looking for info about it on the release notes but couldn't find anything. Anyone care to enlighten me?

Re:Blast

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

I just don't understand why Linux has not caught on with non-technical folks.

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

[AndreasB]

It's the text-mode install, just in case the live cd won't boot on your hardware or something.

Re:Prematurely released :( ?

[Pecisk]

Seems that you are running LiveCD install disk. In this case, use alternative version with old-skul text installer and then propapbly all will be fine.

Re:You have to update your sources 1st

[Knuckles]

This is deprecated (at least for newbies), read the Upgrade Notes [ubuntu.com]

Re:Back to the good old days

[Etyenne]

Red Hat drops their free version of Red Hat Linux.

Not quite. Actually, they renamed it "Fedora". But that's too much for some to understand ...

Kubuntu

[billybob2]

Kubuntu 6.06 [kubuntu.org] has also been released [kubuntu.org] and is fully supported by Canonical. You can download [kubuntu.org] it and order free Kubuntu CDs through Shipit [kubuntu.org].

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

[kwoff]

Ah, so it's the ATI card? I do indeed have one, ATI Mobility Radeon X600. Yesterday I managed to workaround this problem (I think) by booting into previous kernel versions, since I think it's a kernel-driver problem. I found that "kacpid" processes kept starting, and after 5 or 10 minutes windows would start closing at random and finally everything locked up and the fan started whirring faster.

Re:Careful when Upgrading

[hotani]

Also, careful with the SMP kernel on MDD G4s, as in: Don't. It is not ready and will totally hose the system. Apparently it works in Breezy, but when I loaded it for Dapper the most obvious problem was my system clock was completely out of whack and I couldn't do anything because the screensaver kept taking over. When I did finally get in and past the screensaver of death, every applet in my menu died at once producing about 8 error messages on the desktop.

Re:Automatix

[EvilIdler]

Automatix overwrites system configurations and whatnots, and force
various commands to say 'yes' to possibly dangerous operations.
The #ubuntu denizens recommend againsy using it.

Re:torrents

[Knuckles]

Automatix is considered unsafe. It overwrites system files, forces potentially dangerous operations, etc. (At least it did at one time, the author got a lot of advice and has changed things, but I still wouldn't trust it.)

Easyubuntu [freecontrib.org] is a better option.