Dapper Drake is my Friend. And so is Jim

Posted by ryan
at 5:36 AM on Thursday, June 08, 2006

I’ve been a deb guy for as long as I’ve been using linux as my littany of various howtos can attest. While deb is great I’ve always had to go through a few kernel compiles and what not to get hibernate/suspend and MS VPN support working on my Latitude laptop.

On a tip from my co-worker, Jim, I tried Ubuntu’s latest offering, Dapper Drake.

Wow

An effortless install with full serial IDE support, suspend, hibernate, MS VPN, a stable gnome WM – you name it. I am really impressed.

Check it out

tags: ubuntu,debian

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  1. Drew – May 24, 2006 @ 07:27 AM
    Don't forget to try the automatix script to pull in all the codecs, dvdlibs, flash/java plugins etc for ubuntu.
  2. Jim Van Fleet – May 24, 2006 @ 07:27 AM
    I used automatix on 5.10, and it worked pretty well. I didn't like everything that it did, though. Before just digging in and using automatix, check out what you can do with the current packages. The RestrictedFormats page on the Ubuntu wiki takes care of a lot of the things you'd like to install anyway.
  3. Coda Hale – May 24, 2006 @ 07:27 AM
    Isn't it great? Now if only it had a package for RubyGems. Oh, and if only Ruby weren't spread across hundreds of different packages. It's the one thing I prefered to install from source.
  4. Hampton – May 25, 2006 @ 04:27 AM
    I'm glad to see I'm not the only Rails guy on Ubuntu. I thought I saw macheads everywhere!!! I'm a recovering mac-head who was a recovering windows user who was a recovering Apple IIgs user. Now, me and dapper are best of friends! -hampton.