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I have upgraded my T30 from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10. So far, everything is fine. The biggest surprise is that the previously non-functioning hibernation (screen won't turn off) is now working just fine. Still waiting to see what works and what doesn't.

Ubuntu's alright, I only had a couple nightmares while it was on my machine

Anyways, it has a lot of great features, although most of those features are going to be included in OpenSUSE 11.1 and Fedora 9, or anything really with Gnome 2.24 and Kernel 2.6.27.

I found the OS to be refreshing, as long as I have a terminal window I'm happy though.

Hardware detection was great, and ath9k worked out of the box.

I'm really looking forward to the new releases by operating systems that are coming out.

Installed it on my X24. I cannot get ethernet access to work, though I suspect that is just my router. I haven't been able to try wireless but it comes with ndiswrapper installed so I don't anticipate any problems.

i upgraded and i have problem with it :S

the network manager applet dont appear in top bar , i cant modify my internet settings

Why is it that there were network (wireless based) probs in 8.04 and now you're the second person who has reported no network icon for 8.10.

Having said that, I notice that my main PC with 7.10 also doesn't have a network icon by default so it may be the default.

To install an icon (I haven't yet tried Intrepid) if it's the same as 8.04, hover over the top panel and right click.
Add to Panel > Network Monitor.

Hopefully will put the icon back and allow you to access the settings.

You can always access network settings via System > Administration > network and make your changes.

BTW what changes are you wanting to make? I ask this because I run a number of PC's behind a proxy and have left the Ubu network settings on default.

I don't know why some people reported network problems. For me the upgrade process was straight forward. After upgrading, I started with wired network, just in case I needed to download some additional drivers. The OS downloaded the wireless driver and everything went perfectly from there.

This post represents to me one major problem with Linux, that
upgrading usually causes trouble. I see this all over the Internet, one person is thrilled with the OS while the next ten loose some function or other and start screaming!
I have an X40 on which I have installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron and I was quite surprised that 90% of it's features worked out of the box. Now on to Interpid Ibex and my Bluetooth mouse gets lost on every boot, there are odd multi-colors on the screen when I activate Firefox and on battery power the screen dims and brightens on its own!
Fedora 9.0 doesn't recognize my Bluetooth adapter at all. Mint is no better, neither is Mandriva, I couldn't get past the CD .iso bug in Suse and on and on with each distro that I've tried.
This is not a knock on Linux as whole but my advice, for what it's worth, is to stick with whatever Linux version works best and also allows the use of the most functions on your particular machine. Stick with it for as long as possible and forget about upgrading.
Tim S

Agreed Tim

My main desktop PC's 7.10 and the only reason I'm tempted to upgrade is to see what 8.10's like.

7.10 does everything for me and more.
I put 8.04 on my T30 and whilst it now works, I did have to remove Firefox 3 and install ver 2 because of as then unresolved multimedia / plugin problems.

What have I gained over 7.10 - a nice desktop picture of a heron!!

Apologies for hijacking the thread - kinda!

tim S wrote:This post represents to me one major problem with Linux, that upgrading usually causes trouble.

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stick with whatever Linux version works best and also allows the use of the most functions on your particular machine. Stick with it for as long as possible and forget about upgrading.

I second that tim, and it's one of the major reasons why I love Arch Linux (Sorry, I too apologize for the thread hijack).

Update - Ubuntu actually connects just fine to networks, it's my awful router that was the problem. I can connect to my school's wireless network.

j-dawg wrote:Update - Ubuntu actually connects just fine to networks, it's my awful router that was the problem. I can connect to my school's wireless network.

Glad you're sorted now!

Wowee, 8.10 has turned my linux experience around!

Volume buttons work, RA0 wireless is perfect, hibernate, sound, fast boot, trackpoint works, holy sh*t!!!!

Not without some googling of course, but this is the version i have been waiting for, and i now officially have a dual boot going.