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Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake" released

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Pathos:
I've been trying the beta's, I found it incredibly slow on my 1ghz 256MB machine until I switched to xfce.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Pathos ---I've been trying the beta's, I found it incredibly slow on my 1ghz 256MB machine until I switched to xfce.
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Runs great on my Athlon XP 2600+ with 256Mb RAM.

I'm liking the automation. I plug in my mp3 player - nautilus opens showing me the files. Place in a blank CD in and I'm asked if I want to burn an audio or data disk, or do nothing.

Also, my brother needed my ps2 keyboard again (apparantly he had tried that option in the BIOS), so I took his USB one and it worked without having to restart X. I was of the belief that deficiencies in Xinput made that impossible? Anyhow, it's an Apple keyboard - and the volume buttons (volume++, volume--, mute), and the eject button, all worked! And they worked nicely - like in Mac OS X, a little window comes up with a bar showing the volume (and eventually dissapears), and if it can't eject the drive it shows a failed icon.

Hardware acceleration for my video card (radeon 9600 pro) was enabled by default (to my disbelief) with the free DRI driver, which is neat because it saved me alot of work (recompiling (parts of) the X server and mesa is NOT fun anymore). So to play bzflag I just installed it in synaptic and clicked in Applications > Games > bzflag (I ran it the first time expecting it to be using software rendering). There are some glitches in e.g. the menus and the HUD because the driver isn't complete, but nothing major.

bzflag is so cool online. Who needs non-free software to play games!?

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