So What version of Ubuntu is everybody using?

[ScottMorris]

In light of the release of 6.10 I though it would be cool to see what everyone was using.

Edit: What has been your favourite version so far and why?

I liked Dapper over Breezy, it was a lot easier to use, and I think Edgy keeps up the tradition of ease of use...except for some minor bugs. :o

[Uncle Spellbinder]

Edgy Eft. Pertinent info in my signature.

[Tamil]

I like Edgy over Dapper.

[gerowen]

Edgy is my first Ubuntu release, well "technically" Dapper was, but I only used it for like two hours before I found out that I had downloaded it only 3 hours before Edgy was set to be released, so I don't really count Dapper.

[argie]

I'm using Dapper. I will upgrade with Feisty.

[Zdravko]

I use Edgy. But in the "feisty-sub forum" I know a person, who uses already edgy+1. Dunno how is that possible.

[eriqk]

Dapper on my work machines, Edgy on my laptop.

Groet, Erik

[MaximB]

I am using edgy now...but I don't see that a big progress was made since dapper...really, all this upgrade but not many new things.
I'm not counting the programs which you can get from the Internet and have no issues with ubuntu at all.
sorry for this example, but it's NOT like you upgrade windows 98 to xp.
I hope the next ubuntu release do the trick.

[Gustav]

I'm running Dapper right now but will upgrade whenever I got a spare minute.

[kerry_s]

I'm using edgy-server-install+xfce4, not xubuntu, just xfce4.

[beniwtv]

Edgy, and it rocks!

I still can't believe this OS is free... :mrgreen:

Waiting for Feisty now.... :D

[raqball]

6.06 here :)

[ProjectGod]

holy moley where did all you lot get edgy from ? it's only been like 4 days since it came out. (6 months gone already!!!! OMG!). i'm still using breezy bad badger. why? cause he's sexy. and i'm not too fond of new releases. besides technology is speeding towards a cliff's edge and need to slow down a bit.

[Kateikyoushi]

Edgy and I will stcik with it for a while, patch and compile the kernel and see what else can be tweaked on it to my liking.

[Shay Stephens]

I am using edgy, and it is my favorite. I have used dapper and breezy.

[SunnyRabbiera]

Dapper for now, I will probably keep dapper until:
A: Edgy becomes more developed, I know patience is a virtue and sometimes "Latest" doesnt always mean "greatest"
B: The end of support for dapper, I can always upstream whenever I want and keep my system current for as long as possible.
C: I get another computer, I want to have this computer for a while though so I dont think this will happen for a bit.
D: Until I deem Edgy "ready", Like I said I want development for Edgy to get all the bugs out, I used this for dapper and I will use it for edgy.

[Zdravko]

I am just curious - who was the one lucky guy with Edgy+1 testing it?

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[EdThaSlayer]

I wish i could upgrade to efty...but my internet connection is kind of slow and i need to get a new source list(which is easy i know...but its just me that is lazy)

[bastiegast]

Using Edgy, but I regret it a little bit since I ran in some problems


I am using edgy now...but I don't see that a big progress was made since dapper...really, all this upgrade but not many new things.
I'm not counting the programs which you can get from the Internet and have no issues with ubuntu at all.
sorry for this example, but it's NOT like you upgrade windows 98 to xp.
I hope the next ubuntu release do the trick.

Indeed but i didnt expect it to be. How long did it took M$ to develop XP? Let alone Vista. I mean this release came only half a year after dapper.

Btw. feisty plans look promising.

[fguilhon]

Dapper...
I'm waiting for the community feedback! :p And then, will upgrade.

[wpwood3]

After using Edgy for a few days I would NOT recommend upgrading yet. Dapper is a solid release...Edgy is not there yet!

Problems I have seen so far:

1) Samba is flaky. The icons come and go. Sometimes you can connect and sometimes not.

2) The keyring does not work properly. Passwords are not saved in Samba.

3) The VNC (Vino) Remote Desktop deletes your password when you reboot.

All of these seem to be known bugs. Hopefully they will be fixed in updates soon.

[ScottMorris]

It seems that even with the few problems with 6.10, a lot have already upgraded to Edgy. I like Dapper for its stability but its kind of like Windows XP, it is in mass use and it still is FULL of holes........ but I'm not saying Edgy is XP it is far from it, in fact its light-years from it.

[Animortis]

Dapper while I wait a month or so for Edgy to get its post-launch bugs hammered out.

[lazyart]

I'll forgo Edgy and stick with Dapper. I'm too newb to discern a bug from my own incompetence. :)

[reiki]

Your poll didn't allow me to select both Dapper AND Edgy! :)

I have Dapper as my main still on sda1 and Edgy is on hda1. Grub lets me decide at boot time. I really like a whole lot of things about Edgy but it's not (and I don't think it was INTENDED to be) a primary, solid, dependable OS as I have found Dapper to be. Edgy is fun but I am having to do a lot of stuff to get it where I want it. I've reinstalled it 3 times now because I've managed to screw things up so bad.

BUT.... it has a lot of nice features and once the bugs are shaken out I think it will be a nice primary OS.

[Compucore]

One of my main desktops is ubuntu 6.06 along with my laptop. THe only one that i have lower than that is my Aptiva. I'll used Hoarty or Breazy if I want to stick with the gnome style of things. But ocassionally I have tried Xubuntu on it whioch is a lighter version of dapper. I prefer my gnome interface. But I am also used to the xubuntu interface as well as an alternative if need be as a backup to the others.

I guess it also depends on which computer your using to put ubuntu on it. So the version will vary with the system in question. But that is me. Needs to be flexible with what one has for computers.

Compucore.

[ScottMorris]

As of the writing of this post there is no one who uses Warty 4.10 or Hoary 5.04, I know their support has be discontinued but maybe they were like Windows 98 (and maybe ME, but no one liked that one..except me..) and people used them out of no need to upgrade.

[Toontwnca]

Was on Edgy.
I swithced back to Dapper.
I'm currently experimenting with a server install
and some other stuff to get me up and running.
So far so good.

[d3v1ant_0n3]

Using Edgy, been using it for a while. Not had a problem I haven't caused myself.

[rocknrolf77]

Same here for edgy, not a problem I've not caused myself. And I haven't caused any problems myself so "zero" prob. :)

[TrailerTrash]

As of the writing of this post there is no one who uses Warty 4.10 or Hoary 5.04, I know their support has be discontinued but maybe they were like Windows 98 (and maybe ME, but no one liked that one..except me..) and people used them out of no need to upgrade.

I like Windows ME. I have it on a laptop and its very solid. I use it everyday. Linux hates this laptop.

[ScottMorris]

Finally another to like ME, I never had any problems with it, but everyone else has *high five*

[basketcase]

6.06 on my notebook now for a while.

I did put Edgy on a box I was trying to get MythTV to work on. I didn't see a big difference between Edgy and Dapper. Probably stick with Dapper for a little while longer.

[Polygon]

im gonna stick with dapper for a while because ive already had bad experiences with upgrading to edgy...

and dapper is perfectly stable for me... and most of the changes in edgy are "under the hood", so i wont be able to notice it anyway.

but feisty i believe is going to be a must have upgrade as its going to focus on improvements that we can actually see :D

[thiebaude]

My first was dapper 6.06 and I just upgraded to 6.10 edgy

[mdsmedia]

I've got my Notebook running Dapper (formerly Breezy and Hoary). My Desktop, which is almost neglected at the moment, still has a very vanilla Breezy on it.

When I get the time I'll install Edgy on it just to have a look.

Not given the choice to vote for both I went with Dapper.

[ScottMorris]

Its interesting the number of people who are using more than one version at the same time, that is cool. \\:D/ Goes to show that even the older versions are alive and well and how much longevity the distribution has :D

[Dr. C]

I am running Dapper on my desktop and just upgraded my laptop from Win XP to Edgy. I did not vote in the poll since I am running two different versions of Ubuntu at the same time on production systems.

[firenewt]

Dapper. No way i'm doing an 'upgrade', only a clean install, and since I don't feel like repeating all the tweaks all over again and finding they may be done differently now, I don't think I will bother with edgy.

[ProjectGod]

lol i'm the only person using breezy. :D

[steven8]

I liked ME a lot. I get picked on for that.

I am using Dapper 6.06

[Gandalf6696]

I am using Edgy and when I get wine working on a few apps I will ditch Windows XP

[nbound]

Been using Ubuntu since 5.10... Running Edgy atm its great got it all tweaked awesomely and have beryl running too :D... having next to 0 problems with crashes bugs or errors...

Whose using edgy+1? Is it even semi-stable yet?

[daou]

Dapper until I get my laptop (>2 months and waiting) where I'll stick Edgy. I'd have too much to backup and reinstall/reconfigure on my Dapper desktop, too little time to do it in right now. And, of course, an important project going on which requires a stable OS at home.

[Zdravko]

Whose using edgy+1? Is it even semi-stable yet?

No, but I am just curious to find out who are these 3 lucky people testing Feisty Fawn...

[Johnsie]

I'm using Edgy...

There have been a few small Fiesty releases already. Usually they start releasing more stuff shortly after the conference. What they release in the early stagess is usually very broken stuff so you're best not testing it on a computer whith important data on it. Still it can be kinda fun for people who like messing around with things.

Here is the thread about the new version: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=287270&page=4

But remember... it's very early and a lot of stuff will be brokwne.

[kanpachi]

Still using Dapper
I tried Edgy, and it was giving me a few problems, so i re-installed Dapper which works great for me
i'll just skip Edgy and install Feisty a few months after it's release

[apocalypso]

Still using Dapper here, all these Edgy problems around made me want to wait a litte more before trying Edgy out. I have a fairly customized Dapper installation, and I don't wanna go through any unnecessary fuss just to be "on the 'edge'"... :-k

:-D

[Johnsie]

It's a shame there's no "undo button" for dist upgrades. I think a lot of people are being rightfully scared by some negative feedback about the results of the updating process. Theres always been a risk upgrading and thats something that needs to be looked at. People don't want to risk data loss every 6/4 months.I think most of the problems upgrading this time are easily fixable though.

[frup]

I'm using Edgy and loving it. I've even kept that light default wallpaper because i like it for a change :)

It doesnt feel different from dapper really, Where dapper really did feel different from breezy, but its a really nice update. Its Nice. Nice is a good word for edgy for me :). Loving Firefox 2... Gaim 2b is better... Gnome seems a little more polished and the networking on this box *I think* happened automatically. Can't rate upstart as my Edgy box is my testing pentium 3 and my main computer has broke :(

[reiki]

The nice thing about Ubuntu.... and linux in general... is that if you want to try a new OS you can partition some space for it, install it, and simply choose it from teh Grub menu. If it's too broken, you just boot back to your old OS. I installed Edgy, like I said earlier, on a separate hard drive. I can play and break it and reinstall it and see what I need to do to have it as reliable as Dapper. If and when I get to that point, I can run Edgy as default, keep Dapper as a backup, and just keep going. :)

[dada1958]

I'm back to Dapper, couldn't use my Ricoh Caplio RX with Edgy:(

[user1397]

I use Edgy. But in the "feisty-sub forum" I know a person, who uses already edgy+1. Dunno how is that possible.he or she just replaced all instances of 'dapper' to 'feisty', in their /etc/apt/sources.list file, and then typed in a terminal
sudo apt-get updateI think.

edit: o and, first i used breezy, then upgraded to the dapper RC version a few days before dapper's final release, and finally upgraded to edgy on the day of its release. Well, I did many fresh installs in between all that :)

[ScottMorris]

From a consentsis it seems that those who aren't using Edy are still using Dapper. Although Breezy is still in use it is few and far between. I started with Hoary just before the release of Breezy back when Linux was new on my radar. After using a few different Distros over the last few years I have come to see that Windows and Mac aren't the only things out there and that the way Linux is structured is very logical, in my opinion. I use both Linux and Windows and as I have never reinstalled Windows since Aug. 30th, 2004 it is as like a slow snail. Which I think will never be the name of a Ubuntu version.