Dapper Drake Released
June 1st, 2006
Ubuntu has launched version 6.06 today. Evaluating the test releases was not really an option for me, since it takes about three weeks for me to download an ISO, so I am looking forward to getting Dapper this weekend. I haven’t been so excited about an OS since I got Windows 95 for my 486. Hope there’ll be nothing like this this time around.
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June 2nd, 2006 at 10:58 am
I just finished torrenting the DVD ISO if you want a copy James. Let me know before lunch as I’ll have to get some DVDs when I’m out if you do.
June 2nd, 2006 at 13:22 pm
Stunning. I chose the top item on the boot menu, whatever that was, and it booted straight into a Gnome desktop, livecd style, and that’s where I’m posting from now.
Two icons on the desktop, one with various example files (ogg audio and video, openoffice files, selected chapters from the Ubuntu book), a second labelled Install. Time to click!
June 2nd, 2006 at 15:40 pm
Thanks a lot for the offer - but I already convinced someone to get it for me last night, so I’ll be picking that up this evening (thanks mang).
Sounds good - I think one thing which has been traditionally off-putting to people who try to make the move to Linux is the installer. I can see where they’re coming from, having used the old text based debian installers, but the Ubuntu installer always seemed very user-friendly. Sounds like this is better yet. Perhaps they’re on their way to fixing Bug #1
June 2nd, 2006 at 17:37 pm
I upgraded to Ubuntu 6 (”Dapper Drake”) from Ubuntu 5 (”Breezy Badger”, which I was already pleased with) 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.