Your first thoughts on Dapper?

[cjm5229]

I've been using it since flight 4. Even early on it worked great, except for printing and network issues, all went away with upgrades. I'm downloading the ISO now, going to get as many people as I can to try it out. Now where is Edgy Eft hiding???

[dada1958]

I love Dapper Drake; it's my second upgrade since I discovered Ubuntu in August 2005. In that time it grew to a very mature OS.
I installed Ubuntu-Server on my second P III Compaq that is going to replace my good old beige Mac G3 which served me as web server. It's working right out of the box, with Apache, PHP and MySQL up and running.
Wow, I'm impressed!

[polo_step]

I think I like it quite a bit, but I want to make sure that what I'm seeing is what I'm getting in terms of hardware support. I'm still not sure how to determine if a device is installed and working properly or merely recognized. In the system device GUI I'm seeing a uselessly cryptic "Status: status" instead of something more clear, such as "installed" or "working properly."

As much as I like 6.06, there's apparently still the fatal lack of true support for my notebook wireless card, as the ra0 frontend only supports the grossly obsolete WEP encryption option, as it did in 5.10 -- and in fact appears unchanged from the previous releases.

So...unless there's a better frontend for wireless somewhere in there (and if there is, please tell me), it looks like 6.06 is never going on the notebook, which means it's never going to see serious use.

[BoyOfDestiny]

I think I like it quite a bit, but I want to make sure that what I'm seeing is what I'm getting in terms of hardware support. I'm still not sure how to determine if a device is installed and working properly or merely recognized. In the system device GUI I'm seeing a uselessly cryptic "Status: status" instead of something more clear, such as "installed" or "working properly."

As much as I like 6.06, there's apparently still the fatal lack of true support for my notebook wireless card, as the ra0 frontend only supports the grossly obsolete WEP encryption option, as it did in 5.10 -- and in fact appears unchanged from the previous releases.

So...unless there's a better frontend for wireless somewhere in there (and if there is, please tell me), it looks like 6.06 is never going on the notebook, which means it's never going to see serious use.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/

"A Gnome initiative called Network Manager allow users to roam between wireless and wireless networks using WPA2 WPA, WEP and unencrypted standards."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPA2

It's in the ubuntu repos under:

network-manager-gnome

I haven't tested it. Hope it does what you need it to.

[Harold P]

I like it... one problem, though:

Every time I try to change an icon to a shortcut on the taskbar, it totally poops out on me and starts flashing. I can deal with this, of course. I just wish it'd stop.

Dapper = 9.999/10

[teia]

Well my first experience with Dapper was quite shocking to say the least. During the upgrade download/install my cat decided to play on the keyboard and interrupted the whole process.
It all ended up with a brand new installation of Breezy before trying to upgrade again and this time I made sure the cat was out of the house.
Anyway the cat got the payment he deserved today. I took him to the vet. and castrated him 8)
Now my Dapper is functioning just fine and the cat is laying in a dark corner of the room after having pissed himself and throwed up all he's guts. Everything back to normal.

Dapper is great, it even found my camera. Just plugged it in and it popped up like magic. With widow xp i had to install drivers. I think Dappers has a great future

Teia

[polo_step]

network-manager-gnome

I haven't tested it. Hope it does what you need it to.

I certainly do, too.

I think this is what I saw someone mentioning earlier as a very big improvement in WiFi during the beta stages of 6.06.

I also have to say that I really like the look of 6.06 -- the colors were a gutsy move that really sounded hideous, but in fact look quite interesting and distinctive. [I'm a BFA so I get to pull rank in aesthetic arguments, you see ...about all that degree was ever worth in the real world. ]

I don't want to rush to any blanket raves yet, but the live installation (in which I am working at the moment) seems very, very solid and looks like it has painlessly installed everything on two machines except the nVidia card in the Linux box, which of course needs the proprietary drivers. I think the UniChromePro video in the notebook was even installed, but I'm not 100% sure about how to tell (see previous message).

Many of the things I had hoped for but hadn't any serious expectation of getting are here -- like the CD integrity check which, though lengthy, is reassuring for all those people who are downloading and burning their own CDs.

I'm listening to streaming Vorbis classical netradio as I write this. Setting it up was slightly awkward, but functional.

I'm exceptionally pleased so far...well beyond my expectations!

[Rackerz]

I too am also very impressed with Dapper. Breezy was my starting point, it was my road to Linux. I switched back to Windows after Breezy because it didn't seem as if it was for me. But Dapper is a major improvement and I'd recommend it to anyone. Setting up Breezy seemed like a job for me, but with Dapper everything works and it's a joy to be running a faster more functional machine .

Dapper is a lot better than I expected, and that's saying a lot

[briancurtin]

It's working right out of the box, with Apache, PHP and MySQL up and running.
Wow, I'm impressed!

do you mean that apache and mysql are running by default on every install? or do you mean that the general lot of things works out of the box and that you got apache and mysql running?

[briancurtin]

ya, that orange collor is really cool
Makes ubuntu more "linux for human beings" if you ask me 8)

what about orange is more "for human beings" than brown? not that im saying brown is representative of human, just wondering.