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June 3rd 2006
(6) Ubuntu 6.06 - Dapper Drake
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I’ve been playing around with the new combined install/live Ubuntu 6.06 CD and am jumping on the bandwagon and am going to talk about this extremely popular linux distrubution.
Although I couldn’t get the live CD to support my resolution of 1440×900 I still loved it. The user interface has been improved since the last release and is now slightly shiny and orange. I like this. The icons have also had a revamp which I do like but you can feel that it’s still Ubuntu. You can know run the hard drive installation from the live view of the OS and the installation process has been improved vastly by being layed out better and providing fewer options but with better descriptions. I’ve previously talked about how the installation of Ubuntu has caused hassel for me, especially during the hard drive partitioning, but this version is so much better in this section. I’ll definately be installing the Ubuntu desktop OS when I free up enough space or come into posession of a new hard drive. Hint, anyone?
Besides the desktop release of this distrubution I also found a server release - news to me. This is basically the Ubuntu distribution pre-installed with LAMP (Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP). Now, I’d be really interested in this - if only I had a spare computer - to serve as my server because it’s much safer on Linux than Windows. Plus you get added Linux-ocity. I’ve ordered my CDs for this version, have you?
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Fantastic, I like Ubuntu, I recently used the ship it program to get my hands on some cds and am currently dual booting it with XP, It really cool!
A hard drive for a CD drive?
Lol. I only have one, I’m afraid! But I’ll accept the hard drive anyway?
I ran Ubuntu as a server once, and it’s not recommended at all. Ubuntu is too much of a hog to run as a server.
Anyway, Ubuntu is 90% hype and 10% goodness, it may look nice but it really isn’t that good at all, Gentoo is 1000 times better.
On the front of taking Linux into the home, Ubuntu and SUSE are probably the leaders. But for customization and down-right command line geekery (a good thing) then Gentoo is probably the winner on that account.
Server wasn’t much good then. Hmm.
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.
Gentoo is also a very nice distro, but it’s a lot more work to setup. If you have the time and interest, it can be very informative - I did it once inside a QEMU virtual machine on my Ubuntu machine. Ubuntu is much more of a “turn-key” Linux.