Wanted - Tenacity
I posted in April about troubles upgrading Ubuntu to Dapper and, a couple of days ago, I posted about finding a new tool to upgrade Ubuntu automatically. Well, I am pleased to say that I recieved an email today from one of Ubuntu's mailing list announcing the pre-release beta candidate for Ubuntu 6.06 - and the one click upgrade is there to use :)
Ok, it's more than one click, but all you have to do is click 'ok', 'yes', and 'upgrade'. Hopefully it will work nicely, unlike my previous experiences. The only downside - it's an 842Mb download, with 642 updates. I need to go out for the good part of a day having already had it going overnight to do that. So, I'm going to hold it off for a few days, methinks. I'll keep you posted about how it goes when it's -done though :)
If you want to look at some screenshots of the new release, go to the Dapper Beta page on the Ubuntu Wiki. It's looking extremely nice - and that's high praise from me!
Features of the new release:
- East install from the LiveCD (recommended for most users);
- LiveCD runs twice as fast as before (should please mrBen - it's always been slow compared to Knoppix, but then it's not bothered me, I Knoppix doesn't like my hardware...);
- New Ubuntulooks theme (it's looking fantastic) with great new icons;
- gstreamer 0.10 - with improved media compatibility;
- New podcasting capabilities in Rhythmbox;
- Search function in Nautilus;
- Firefox 1.5 (though I have the 3.0a1 from the nightly builds ;));
- I'm assuming it also has Thunderbird 1.5, but I've no confirmation of this.
Like I said, it's looking good. I can't wait to get my hands on it - but I haven't the time to install it at the moment - hopefully I'll be able to install it in the next week or so though. Maybe Wednesday will be a good day, since I'll be out.
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