Ubuntu Dapper Drake Flight 5

It was a few days after I saw Ubuntu Dapper Drake Flight 5 featured on Digg that I realized I needed to try it out on my laptop, upgrading it from Breezy. Wow was that ever a good idea.

Now, not only does my laptop properly go into and out of suspend AND hibernate (where this would fail in Breezy), but I get to use the excellent Gnome 2.14 before it even comes out. (The final release is due out today, however.) Linux just keeps getting better.

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006 Computers, Software

4 Comments to Ubuntu Dapper Drake Flight 5

Nice work. I’ll be upgrading my work computer tonight!

Tim Riley on March 15th, 2006

i’m running dapper on my laptop as well and it work just perfect :)

have you tried xgl/compiz ?

dunno if you remember, i know you from #blackbox on openprojects :)

cheers

Mateus Zanella (halt) on March 15th, 2006

halt! How are you going lad? I hung out as Safari_Al in #bb too. You should drop into #openbox on irc.oftc.net sometime and say hi!

Tim Riley on March 15th, 2006

Halt! Long time no read. Definitely stop in at the channel and say hey.

And yeah, I’ve successfully installed xgl/compiz on my gentoo desktop AND my dapper laptop now. Runs nice on the desktop (when the cpu isn’t under high load), but like poop on the laptop with its piddly Intel graphics.

I don’t actually use it on either machine right now, though… Cuz I can’t get it to work right with Openbox.