4 Responses to “Ubuntu!”

1. 1 Marc
   Jun 2nd, 2006 at 12:30 pm

   I upgraded to Ubuntu 6 (”Dapper Drake”) from Ubuntu 5 (”Breezy Badger”, which I was already pleased with) and was pleasantly surprised to find that my system is much more responsive than with Breezy. Firefox seems especially snappier. I really like the new GNOME deskbar applet too.

2. 2 james
   Jun 2nd, 2006 at 1:37 pm

   It is so much more responsive now! I liked Breezy just fine but Dapper? It is way more polished. From booting to app execution everything just sings.

   Deskbar Beagle = Joy

3. 3 Tyler
   Jun 3rd, 2006 at 12:32 pm

   I can’t say enough good things about Dapper. I made the switch ~2 weeks ago from XP, which isn’t that big a deal now that I . . er my girlfriend has a dedicated Windows machine to hold the Adobes & Macromedias.

   I was amazed at how much stuff worked right of the bat, especially networking w/ my Windows boxes. As a first timer, the most difficult task in getting everything up & running was finding the right users guide, specifically for XGL/Compiz. There’s tons of guides out there and none of them are the same. I wisely saved every useful page to my del.icio.us in an ordered list for future reference. Now that Automatix & Easy Ubuntu are available for Dapper, that shouldn’t even be needed.

   The only two things I don’t have working are:

   - tv out on my nvidia card (although I do have a copy of someone else’s xorg.conf waiting to be disected on my desktop)

   - beagle. . . at least I THINK i don’t have it working. it’s supposedly installed, but i have no idea how to actually use it (unless I already have been and don’t even realize it)

4. 4 james
   Jun 3rd, 2006 at 1:16 pm

   Well, Beagle is actually wicked easy as usually you have to do nothing! Quickest way to check is the daemon is running: type ps -aux in the terminal and see if beagled is running. If it isn’t type beagled. Done.

   To use it I recommend the Gnome deskbar. Think of it as your one stop search and app launcher. From there you can search using Beagle, Yahoo, Google, the system dictionary, launch application, send mail, go to an address in your bookmarks. It is one of the best features included in Gnome! You can add it by right clicking on an open section of panel, clicking Add, and selecting it from the accessories group.

   I <3 Ubuntu!