Announcing Beta release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 4/21/06, David M <lists2006 at viewport.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.announce
>  about: Announcing Beta release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
>
> > The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Beta Release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS -
> > codenamed "Dapper Drake". The Beta Release introduces the new Desktop CD,
> > which can be used both to try Ubuntu "live" and to install the system.
>
> Excellent! Does this mean that Dapper is now _reasonably_ safe to
> install on a working (but, of course, backed-up!) system?

I have been using Dapper on my laptop daily for quite a while, and it
has been safe and working well for me.

> Are there likely to be (m)any substantial (rather than relatively minor)
> changes between now and the final release, that would make upgrading now,
> and then again later, inconvenient?

It is still a Feature Freeze between the Beta and the Final Release:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze
  "This means we're pretty much locked down for bugfixes only."

> Is it also possible to apt-get dist-upgrade as normal, by changing the
> repository names from breezy to dapper?

 yes




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Daniel Robitaille