Dapper Beta2

kbrown3074 · 05-19-2006, 12:32 PM

I recently installed Ubuntu Dapper Beta2 on my slow machine(1Ghz,256 RAM) and I noticed that it runs pretty fast. It is actually about the same speed as Breezy is on my 2.6G/900M RAM. Anyone know how they got it to get that much faster?

ctkroeker · 05-19-2006, 05:07 PM

Well, for one, GNOME is way lighter and I think it has better memory management. I have 1.2Hhz Athlon and 726MB RAM and it's way faster than breezy on the same machine.
Here are some of the changes the have made https://wiki.ubuntu.com/dapperbeta

soulestream · 05-19-2006, 09:09 PM

yes 2.14 gnome is much faster than 2.12. They made great strides in speeding up nautilus, gnome-terminal, etc. Also being beta, they may not have turned on a lot of junk that the final version has to be more user friendly. Id bet it is gnome though.

Soule

kbrown3074 · 05-20-2006, 06:59 AM

I am actually partial to KDE myself but havent had the chance to install that yet. Isnt it KDE 3.5 this time around?

ctkroeker · 05-20-2006, 09:17 AM

http://www.kubuntu.org/

brianthegreat · 05-21-2006, 08:36 AM

Nine days and the Dapper should be completed and out on the mirrors. I found Dapper really nice but decided to reinstall Breezy becuase did not want to spoil the final version.