Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 beta released (per UbuntuForums.org)

[Robor]

Link to UbuntuForums.org thread

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Seems pretty cool, Dapper's gonna be great.

Its finally doing what Mepis had for a long time now. Installing from a live desktop environment is just a smart idea and much less scary than the ugly ncurses based install. It'll be ten times easier for noobs to install it.

I still hear that this distro has problems with newer nvidia cards because it assigns the incompatible nv driver with xorg (assumably same thing with newer ati cards). Haven't experimented myself though. I think I'll download it and try it out.

I still love Suse, but Ubuntu looks so slick now. Once I get a new laptop its definantly getting an install of Ubuntu. Its a perfect fit for laptops.

 

[magomago]

will defintely try this out when i get back home Been Using Dapper since flight 5, so I'm quite excited to get a chance to see what changed...I noticed when I apt-get upgraded quite a few of the icons changed

Though checking the Ubuntu forums makes me think I'll do that upgrade in maybe a few days since the servers seemed hammered ATM
though one thing i haven't got working (despite the fact that it installed itself) was SCIM...just can't figure out how to activate the bloody thing...and in the past I got it working from source

 

[IamDavid]

Think the final will be released on thime? I haven't really followed any Linux distro's for quite some time now so not sure how they work. I will be installing one as soon as I receive my new toys. I was looking at the newest FC release but would rather go with this if released on time..

Thanks,
David

 

[Robor]

The way I understand it Ubuntu normally releases a new version every 6 months. Breezy is 5.10 (2005 October) so Dapper would've been 6.04 but was pushed back 2 months to 6.06.

I'm happy with Breezy so I'm not going to mess with my current setup but I may load the Dapper beta on a spare HD if I find some spare time. Right now all the spare time is being taken up by Oblivion.

 

[magomago]

Yesh it should be released on time. Dapper was delayed 6 weeks for "plolish" and to add multilanguage input support (basically integrate SCIM into the base install). So they could have released it earlier with bugs...but they pushed it back for pure bug working which is great in my opnion...so I don't see why they would delay it any further.

 

[daniel49]

Originally posted by: Robor
The way I understand it Ubuntu normally releases a new version every 6 months. Breezy is 5.10 (2005 October) so Dapper would've been 6.04 but was pushed back 2 months to 6.06.

I'm happy with Breezy so I'm not going to mess with my current setup but I may load the Dapper beta on a spare HD if I find some spare time. Right now all the spare time is being taken up by Oblivion.

Yes, I still have a breezy too and probably won't do dapper since I'm finding more joy in pclos at the moment.

I got that spare time problem too someone introduced me to the free download of wolfenstien enemy territoy

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Well I tried out the beta.

First as I suspected, there's still that issue that was there since 4.10 where newer ati and nvidia graphics cards aren't supported by the nv and radeon (or ati?) driver. If a newer card is detected then there should be a vesa driver supplied.. So I swapped out the 'nv' part with 'vesa' and ran startx, but apparently xorg kept nagging me about running its xserver (because of the nv error) so I kept having to alt+backspace until I was sure it was safe to run startx again.

Next I booted in. This went fine. I could play around with some software, but I needed to enable my internet connection. It was easy to get to the 'Network" place to mess with my network devices. I clicked on my ralink card and set the properties. Then when I clicked on activate, my computer froze. :|

Oh yeah and one more thing, I was surprised that it didn't automatically mount all my partitions on my hard drive. It didn't automount any of them..

I think I'll just stick with Suse until Edgey Eft comes out with XGL (unless NLD10 or Suse with XGL comes out first ).

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
I think I'll just stick with Suse until Edgey Eft comes out with XGL (unless NLD10 or Suse with XGL comes out first ).

Should be pretty easy to get Xgl on Ubuntu. I also had to manually install Xgl on (Open)SUSE. It was pretty easy (except hardware accel may be harder).

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+xgl&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dapper+xgl&btnG=Google+Search

But I think Ubuntu is harder to use than SUSE. Ubuntu's no diff than Debian from my experience and I have a hard time why they recommend newbs use it. Not that you have to be a rocket scientist to operate either but personally I prefer the ease of use of OpenSUSE. Although in SUSE, at stock settings, I had video corruption ("nv" driver) and the NF4 chipset has problems with Linux as well (ACPI interrupt problems on mine from nv_sata driver). Debian's been the fastest for me though.