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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Apr 2006 18:52 UTC, submitted by SEJeff

"The Ubuntu team is proud to present the beta release of Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake). With Ubuntu 6.06 Beta comes loads of bug fixes, a new look-and-feel, a new live-CD installer, GNOME 2.14.1, and much more." You can download it as both live-CD and install CD, and as always, available for x86, x86-64, and PowerPC.

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Ubuntu goodness

by pclapham on Thu 20th Apr 2006 21:05 UTC

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2006-04-13

Very slick. I believe that it will be really ready for prime time when the configuration tools are at the same functionality as YAST (in regards to the amount of configuration tools), but look and feel like they are part of the OS. YAST looks and feels like a stop gap which was hacked together.

Being able to configure the system is where Ubuntu can shine.

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RE: Ubuntu goodness

by dsmogor on Fri 21st Apr 2006 06:15 in reply to "Ubuntu goodness"

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2005-09-01

IMO that their policy is to have as much thigs as possible configured autmagically and thus eliminate need for elaborated configuration tools. That may clash with consumer desktop diversity but they are heading corporate anyway.

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RE[2]: Ubuntu goodness

by pecisk on Fri 21st Apr 2006 08:08 in reply to "RE: Ubuntu goodness"

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2005-10-20

Actually such policy was for Debian too. In fact, Debian tools and packaging is so good that I had to configure specially some MTA or Apache very rarerly. So this is the same policy, well, yes, they don't ask for any configuration while apt-get upgrade or dist-grade, it is just difference.

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