Linux-Watch: Ubuntu's Dapper Drake is One Impressive Linux Distro

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"Perhaps the most widely anticipated Linux distribution of the year finally arrived on June 1: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Service), aka Dapper Drake.

"Already number one on DistroWatch's latest seven-day download tracker, the Dapper Drake runs the GNOME 2.14 desktop environment on top of the X.org 7.0 window system and a Linux 2.6.15.6 kernel. The operating system is available for download for x86, AMD64, and PowerPC architectures. A beta version for Sun's T1 UltraSPARC will also be made available as soon as T1000 and T2000 certifications are complete..."

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