Ubuntu Dapper Drake Released
June 12, 2006 – 5:50 amI am quite excited about Dapper Drake, the new version of Ubuntu. I haven’t installed it yet. With a Dial up connection it is quite difficult to download it. Secondly, I have no idea how to burn a disk image. I will wait till the Free CD arrives which usually does not take more than a few weeks.
I am not sure what differences I would see. But reading the reviews and announcements I figured the following:
- It uses Gnome 2.14, I am currently using Gnome 2.12 on Breezy.
- It has newer versions of Open Office and many other software.
- Installing PHP, Apache and mysql (LAMP) has been made simpler.
- Improved video playback support.
- Faster system startup and login.
Steven reviews Dapper on Linux Watch, links to more reviews available at distrowatch.
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One Response to “Ubuntu Dapper Drake Released”
I think you will really like it.
Ubuntu is great and Dapper Drake makes it even better!
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.
By Marc on Jun 12, 2006