Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 11th Mar 2006 21:26 UTC, submitted by Maarten Vanheuverswyn
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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2006-03-10
I left RPM-world a few years ago in frustration
What frustrated you? Did the system break?
When I think back...
* Buggy software. Some releases worse than others (RH6.0 was especially bad).
* Official mirrors quickly dropping support for older releases (I think I had to change mirrors 3 times with Mandrake 8.2)
* Complex configurations not suited for commandline maintenance. (an I was not impressed by Linuxconf)
* A lot of dependency problems, which I've been able to solve better on Debian.
* The final straw was that Mandrake patched Emacs in a crude way to hardwire Alt and Meta to be the same key.
All this might have gotten better on Fedora/Mandriva (I know the UI has), but I see no reason to go back. Debian/Ubuntu just works and I like the way they do things.