Upgrading to 7.10

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) from Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). Ok so I was a little apprehensive upgrading to the newest version of Ubuntu because the last time I tried I had trouble with the sound driver. I just went online and tried to ugrade it last night... can't sleep... blame it to my crazy schedule. Anyway I did upgrade it and got the same problem but after restarting and changing the sound option to ALC883 Analog and disabling ESD I restarted and the problem went away. I'm still gonna monitor the system if there's any changes in a few more days. Hopefully everything works well.

I can't wait for the next LTS (Long Term Support) version 8.0 (Hardy Heron) due for release April 2008.


Btw to those who are not Ubuntu users and might be wondering what's the deal with these upgrades and what's an LTS. Let's just say that the upgrades are like service packs for your WIndows OS like in XP and Vista and the LTS is like when Microsoft or Mac introduced a totally different OS like Windows XP to Vista or Mac 9 to Mac OS X. Usually it takes 3 years for Ubuntu to release it's next LTS. The last one was Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake), was released on June 1, 2006.