Free-bees.co.uk: Ubuntu 6.06 [Review]

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"The latest Ubuntu release, Dapper Drake, was quite a few weeks ago, so why review it now? After all, there are plenty of other reviews lying around. Well, there are a number of reasons. First of all, it doesn't matter when it was released; so long as it is the current version, it is worth a look. Secondly, this is a long term support release--it will be supported for three years on the desktop, while the next release, Edgy Eft, may not be a suitable for widescale implementations due to its more experimental nature. Finally, Ubuntu is, in the minds of many, the distribution equivalent of the best thing since sliced bread, and so Ubuntu could serve as a very useful yardstick to measure other distributions again..."

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