Dapper success stories

[Charles Yao]

On 7/11/06, Chris Neary <hello at poetofcode.org> wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> When I apt-get dist-upgraded from Breezy to Dapper, the poor badger
> hurled up in a corner and cried - sound was broken, things were
> inconveniencing me (that I won't go into here because this is not a
> call for help) with the Desktop and eventually I left the bare minimum
> of the remains of the box running as my SSH, FTP, Web and Samba server
> (still can't get the MPD server 0.12svn [www.musicpd.org] to
> co-operate with Alsa though).
>
> And remotely as a server it still all works rather well.
>
> Now, I clean-installed Dapper straight onto the hard disk of my
> high-spec machine. I won't gloat, but.. 1.5 GB RAM, 120 GB hard disk,
> AMD whatjimicallit processor (it's fast, but I've no idea what it is.
> I'll check later) and a nice shiny black blue-lit case with 19" TFT
> display, backended by an Inno3D nVidia 128 MB Geforce somethingy card.
> (again, I'm not up on the geeky specs like I ought to be).
>
> So I bit the bullet and installed Dapper from one of my newly received
> Dapper CDs which I got in the post just recently. Interesting
> approach, to just install from a running Live CD like that. No issues.
>
> Reboot, and eject. And boot!
>
> I had to change the GRUB menu.lst file to give me a nicer resolution
> (vga=0x317) for the Splash, but all works brilliantly well. And that
> new Human theme is rather nice. Finally I found this howto on the
> Internet:
>
> <
> http://www.davehayes.org/2006/05/22/howto-xgl-and-compiz-on-ubuntu-dapper-new-and-improved/
> >
>
> ...and I now have in my posession the ULTIMATE movie-OS desktop PC!
> Look at how it swooshes and rotates! That's so fake. But I love it. We
> now have a Desktop that resembles what Hollywood want it to, which is
> interesting.
>
> Before you know it we'll be doing: apt-get install
> ubuntu-voice-recog-desktop.
>
> So, long story short, moral of the story, etc: I had scarred opinions
> of Dapper after an upgrade from Breezy went not-so-well. But after
> installing a fresh with nothing to break, it works like a charm.
> Super-fast too (but that might have something to do with my stupid
> amount of RAM!)
>
> Has anybody else had that 'Oh wow - I know Ubuntu rocks, but THIS
> ROCKS MY SOCKS' moment with Dapper?
>
> Chris
>
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Hi Chris congratulations on your clean install!!!

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