Ubuntu Intrepid

[Joel Goguen]

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 09:55 -0500, Andrew Mathenge wrote:
> I upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid over the weekend and I'm going
> back to Hardy. For one thing, the nVidia drivers in Intrepid are not
> stable. I keep loosing my title bars and video playback is choppy.
> 
> There are some minor cosmetic changes to the menu which aren't
> that appealing.
> 
> My Hardy system was very stable except for Firefox which would
> crash and disappear without warning from time to time. I also had
> problems with Synaptic which solved themselves over time.
> 
> Perhaps the problems that I'm having with Intrepid will eventually
> go away, but since Hardy is a long term support release I think
> I can wait a few more months before trying this again.
> 
> Does anyone know if there's a way to backup customisations that
> I've made to various parts of my system or will I have to manually
> re-do them? For example, I've added applications to the panel along
> the top of my GNOME screen and customised the way they
> launch.
> 
> My system is a Dell Latitude D620.
> 
> I'd be curious to hear about other's upgrade experience.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Andrew.

My upgrade was quite smooth and painless back in the beta days.  I had
the same problems with title bars that you saw, but I had those problems
back in Gutsy.  AFAIK there's a bug submitted about it, but I don't
recall the bug number.  Overall I'm impressed with Intrepid and I'm
planning to stick with it.  HP Pavilion dv2622ca, and even my Broadcom
BCM4328 works out of the box thanks to the wl driver :)  The network is
a little flaky sometimes, but I'm still investigating (when I actually
have time) to see if I should submit a bug report about NM or wl, or if
I should complain to HP (again) about their use of Broadcom chips.

-- 
Joel Goguen
Bug-free code is a myth.
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