The 5th preview release of Ubuntu Dapper Drake is out on the mirrors. As usual, there are both install and live CD's for PowerPC, x86, and x86-64. "We are now in the final stages of Dapper Drake development. Everything is stabilizing, and Ubuntu 6.04 will certainly be a top-notch professional OS. Now that all of the lower level improvements have been made, it is time to close the hood and rub on a coat of wax. With Flight 5 comes a new and improved Human look-and-feel, a few new GUI power tools, and much more." Update: Screenshot tour.
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Member since:2005-12-09
I don't know the answer to this, maybe you can tell me. Does Mandriva have Gnome 2.13/14? Tomboy? NetworkManager? Gnome-sudoku? Liferea? Rhythmbox 0.93? XGL? And that's just what I have currently running right now. I know Fedora probably has all those already.
I don't know myself because I prefer KDE over GNOME, so don't bother intalling GNOME on my Mandriva installation altough I use it elsewhere. As for XGL, its not officially supported but can work on Mandriva.
The advantage debian-derived distributions have is that (to a varying extent) they all share the same package upstream so the work is co-operative not simple duplication of effort. I like that.
I wouldn't call it duplication of effort because most rpm distros are not based on one distro like the Debian derivatives.
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2005-07-06
I don't know the answer to this, maybe you can tell me. Does Mandriva have Gnome 2.13/14? Tomboy? NetworkManager? Gnome-sudoku? Liferea? Rhythmbox 0.93? XGL? And that's just what I have currently running right now. I know Fedora probably has all those already.
I dunno, maybe the rpm distros are catching up as you say -- if so that's great. The popularity of Ubuntu has probably been a big factor in how Fedora dramatically improved their distribution from their poor quality starts to the quite good FC5. Also probably a factor that helped push Debian into a better timeframe commitment for releases.
I do understand your point, that there is no reason why you couldn't achieve the same level of application support with rpm as I talk about deb having -- as you say the cli and gui tools are there. The advantage debian-derived distributions have is that (to a varying extent) they all share the same package upstream so the work is co-operative not simple duplication of effort. I like that.