[wellylug] UBUNTU 5.10 Dapper. First experiences!

[Daniel Pittman]

Gerald Roehrbein <Gerald.Roehrbein at oraforecast.com> writes:

>> You got the version number wrong in your description, though.  5.10
>> and Dapper are different releases. ;)
>
> seems !2b my mistake. The CD is from a mag and labeled Ubuntu 5.10..
> During install 1 of the screens shows DAPPER. So I thought this is
> 5.10 Dapper. Oooopppsss!

Well, there you go.

> What's de diff btween em?

Eight months between releases, and three and a half years of support. ;)

Dapper is the "Long Term Support" release, 6.06, and is designed to last
for five years.  5.10 was the prior release.

In practical terms there isn't a huge degree of difference, mostly
software version updated, and it really will not hurt that much to be
running either for the moment. 

>> Please report that to the Ubuntu BTS so they fix it.  The *right* fix is
>> to install the JRE package provided by Ubuntu; the methods are
>> documented here:
>> 
>>     https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
>
> I've google'd a lot b4 starting my proprietary method. Just want's to
> solve this problem in a few hours. Have a lot of real work. I've ! 
> found @Ubuntu any hint about this. In my opinion, if a distributor
> installs FF, he/she should make the installation process as intuitive
> as possible.

Absolutely.  I agree completely:

> There are hundreds having same problem and no real solution!
>
> Probably the default link of FF should point to useful additional
> installation hints!

This is the right thing to do.  Since I don't use FireFox, and since I
already had the JDK installed, I can't reproduce the problem.

If you report it then, probably, Ubuntu can take action to *make* it
work that way.  Without you telling them it needs to be done[1] they may
not actually know!

> P.S. Read that it is now allowed in NZ to use SMS language @sch8ll. So
> this becomes official writing. Try to give my very best with that! ;-)
>
> Well really babylonic style to write!

I can't tell you how much that makes me twitch. :(

Regards,
        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  ...and those hundreds of people having the same problem probably
     have not reported it either, just complained and hoped someone else
     takes on that responsibility -- not that it is more than a few
     minutes work. 

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