Ubuntu 6.06

[Plotloss]

Anyone upgraded yet?

Any good, anything thats a must have?

[aldi]

Yep, did a 5.10 install followed by the 6.06 online update followed by 'easybuntu' for all the codecs, etc. Use it as my main machine at work and Everything Just Works

[Plotloss]

Ahh so you can go from 5.1 to 6.06 via the update manager?

Smart!

[xiphias]

[aldi]

Yes! but IIRC you have to change a setting or click some kind of button to get the 'upgrade to 6.06' option in the update manager - sorry I can't be more specific right now.

Edit: http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=14

Edited by aldi on Thursday 15th June 15:35

[_dobbo_]

Have a nice little p4 Dell box that I aquired for a song at home, and a ubuntu 5.10 DVD sat next to it, it would be rude not to.

[UncleDave]

Anyone have any ideas, I tried to run this for a mess around a bit on my comp..

It ran OK and the mouse worked, then it just stopped working and the mouse froze completely!
Any ideas? I quite fancy Linux for use when I get sick of XP.

Dave.

[_dobbo_]

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

[aldi]

_dobbo_ said:

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Perhaps it needs new batteries?

[UncleDave]

_dobbo_ said:

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Useless..

And yep tried it twice

[xiphias]

You didn't overwrite the boot partition or something did you?

Always worked fine for me.

[UncleDave]

Damn you all

[aldi]

[_dobbo_]

sorry dave, i was only half joking! First time I messed with Ubuntu it locked up,quick reboot sorted it and it's been great ever since.

[UncleDave]

Hmmm... I might try the 32bit version, maybe that was causing problems.
(And yes, before you ask my Comp IS 64bit )
Dave.

[dcw@pr]

Ubuntu "Just Works"????

Yeah right, not IME

[_dobbo_]

dcw@pr said:

Ubuntu "Just Works"????

Yeah right, not IME

agreed, there are degrees of "just working" - It does work very well as a desktop compared to most other Linux Distro's, but it's not quite up with Windows much less OSX.

[aldi]

_dobbo_ said:

dcw@pr said:

Ubuntu "Just Works"????

Yeah right, not IME

agreed, there are degrees of "just working" - It does work very well as a desktop compared to most other Linux Distro's, but it's not quite up with Windows much less OSX.

In what way?

[_dobbo_]

okay, during the install it asked me for a username and password, but not for a root password. Now when I need to specify the root password, I don't know what it it, and it certainly isn't my user password.

I run "update-manager -d" and it tells me my system is up to date, so where is the "dapper" upgrade that I'm supposed to be able to get?

Finally, I installed flash into firefox, nice and easy, but do you think it can display my flash website? No, half of it is missing:



I'll persevere and I'm sure I'll work it out, but that's 3 problems in 3 minutes on a clean install I did 10 minutes ago.

[Plotloss]

Theres no root password in Ubuntu.

If you need to do anything as root you use the sudo command, when it prompts you for the password its the password of the logged in user...

He said, proudly displaying his sandals to the world, the transformation is almost complete...

If you've got kids try apt-get gcompris - its great!