I upgraded my laptop from breezy to dapper today. The biggest problem was getting X to work the right way again with my dual screen setup. I had to download a newer version of the ATI driver and manually configure things using aticonfig then hand editing the xorg.conf file. The GUI wizard that ATI provides with their driver doesn’t seem to work anymore. I’m not sure if this is caused by xorg 7.0 or something else. I did get everything else back up now though and it seems to be working well. This is the amazing thing about debian based distros. You can do full version upgrades without too much trouble. Doing this type of thing in many other linux distros or something like Windows usually causes many problems. We’ll have to see if I run into any other problems over time though. Does anyone else have anything good or bad to say about dapper so far?
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I upgraded to Dapper and was pleasantly surprised to find that my system is much more responsive than with Breezy. Firefox seems especially snappier. I really like the new GNOME deskbar applet too.