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Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper is out since 1st June, and i have not manage to tahan the itch, so did an upgrade via update manager last Sunday evening. Process went nice, painless and easy. After about 1 hour plus. In between there are numerous questions to confirm somethings (settings for different services). At the end my upgrade was broken, due to Samba setting. Did an "apt-get remove samba" and reboot. Everything went on well after reboot.

Notice the system is still relatively fast (hard to judge since it could be my huge amount of RAM),  and Gnome 2.14 is nice. Some improvements can be noticed. I can now drag desktop items from one desktop to the other (in dualhead mode), and you get this nice notification at lower right whenever disk space runs low. Almost everything just work. NetworkManager was not behaving well, but a short visit to ubuntu's wiki solved my problem. Now it is running again. I had a custom installation of Firefox 1.5 in breezy, so followed mysurface's instruction and got dapper's firefox back in.

Sound had much improvement. The sound engine upgraded supports now multiple stream. I last remember in breezy i need to manually set it to polyaudio, iinm. So it is a good thing (TM). One thing i also noticed today: my cpu load stay almost 100% even if i don't run anything. From several postings after i google'd, some suggested that i should try 386 kernel instead. gonna reboot and see whether if that's true.

so if you are worry about upgrade problem, do remember to do a backup before you start. I am just desperate and brave enough to do it without backup, but nothing went wrong so i assume the upgrade process is well planned and implemented. System looks good. so i would encourage you to upgrade.