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Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake" released
piratePenguin:
It looks kinda cool, I'm downloading it now (I got ADSL just today too!).
(I'd write more but my brother needs my keyboard because his USB one doesn't work when reinstalling Windows.)
Read the announcement.
Refalm:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---(I'd write more but my brother needs my keyboard because his USB one doesn't work when reinstalling Windows.)
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[OFFTOPIC]Has he tried using the "making USB keyboards count as PS/2 keyboards" in the BIOS?[/OFFTOPIC]
worker201:
--- Quote from: Refalm ---[OFFTOPIC]Has he tried using the "making USB keyboards count as PS/2 keyboards" in the BIOS?[/OFFTOPIC]
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[OFFTOPIC]I'm pretty sure my BIOS doesn't have such a feature. This must be something relatively new (within last 2 years).[/OFFTOPIC]
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Refalm ---[OFFTOPIC]Has he tried using the "making USB keyboards count as PS/2 keyboards" in the BIOS?[/OFFTOPIC]
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When I asked him that he seemed sure he had this option on, but he probably didn't.
So I've just installed Ubuntu 6.06. The first time I went to install it it just fucked up completely - I thought it would just take a while to sort out the partitions but when I came back the monitor was completely black and when I went to install it again (after hitting the reset button), there wasn't much waiting atall - so there was something seriously wrong.
I tried to reproduce the fuckup but I couldn't.
Other than that fuckup, this is one sweet OS. That installer is amazing (the map to select your city, the 'change time' window where you can set the time manually or sync it with an online server (determined automatically)). The live cd in itself is also amazing.
Whenever I booted up into Ubuntu I was notified that there was an update available - some pcmcia package. I like that updating system.
Sound, network - they all work, and have worked on the live cd, without any intereference from me (except I had to actually enable the network interface in System > Administration > Networking). There's alot of nice stuff in that Administration menu - namely the 'services' (things which start at boot) and 'shared folders' configurors.
Aloone_Jonez will be glad to know that there's a menu editor with this release :)
So uh, so far so good. That fuckup was a letdown though (not sure if it could have been a hardware error (I've noticed my disk is getting very loud and slow)..?).
Jack2000:
my only problem with ubuntu was that
i am on a PPPoE connection and it does not dial-up before it tryes the time servers
so i had to turn that option off
and another thing was that my yamaha black-market
sound card :) that i do not even know the model
was not supported by the kernel :)
i hope they fixed those things ....
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