| Ubuntu Dapper Drake survives test flight |
Jun. 02, 2006
 DesktopLinux.com columnist and frequent Linux test pilot Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has already strapped himself in and taken two-day old Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake" for a test flight -- and he didn't have to bail out.
"I took the slowest and oldest of my regular test systems, a 120MHz Pentium with a 10GB hard-drive and 64MB of RAM. This system normally runs NT 4.0 for testing older Windows networking. I was able to quickly and easily install Ubuntu Server," writes Vaughan-Nichols. "Ubuntu actually worked far better than the ancient copy of NT on this old server. If I wanted to get some real work out of my older servers, without sweating the details of pulling out services to get the right minimal mix, I'd look to Ubuntu."
Vaughan-Nichols, whom we occasionally characterize as a true Linux curmudgeon, praises many aspects of Dapper Drake, though he does manage to find a few areas to complain about as well.
But "The bottom line? As a free distribution for home use, I think it's a great desktop. It's also extremely impressive as a low-end service. For a business desktop, though, I'd give it some more time to mature. By year's end, however, Ubuntu should be giving any Linux desktop -- home or enterprise -- a run for its money," he concludes.
Find out exactly why he comes to this conclusion by reading the entire first-look article here:
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS first impressions
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