Ubuntu Intrepid

[Doooh_Head]

So far my upgrade(s) experience has been pretty good.  

I upgraded to Intrepid on my Dell Inspiron laptop (to the beta actually) and
it was flawless.  All the hardware was recognized without any issues.

I upgraded my main machine this past weekend and it too completed without
any issues.  All of the software that I previously had installed all seem to
still work even though they weren't necessarily upgraded.  All of my
hardware issues that I had around my USB peripherals seems to have been
fixed, or rather they seem more stable than they were.

My only issue that I've had was on my work machine, I attempted to overwrite
an install of v8.04 with v8.10 server version on a machine that was
dual-booting with XP.  The install went ok, I chose the correct drive to
install it to (seperate drives for XP and Ubuntu), but when I restarted GRUB
was somehow messed up.  I ended up reinstalling the v8.10 desktop version
and it fixed everything, so for right now I'm satisfied.  So with that now
I'm having some NVidea related, dual-monitor issues, but I'll get back to
that later.

Doooh

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-ca-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-ca-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Mathenge
Sent: November 3, 2008 10:56 AM
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
Subject: Ubuntu Intrepid

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.

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