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Slippy, I suggest you search launchpad.net for issues related to your hardware, because everything runs smoothly, im thinking the only issues that could be lurking are mainly driver issues, Ive been running Hardy for months and its been stable, just fixes and improvements to gutsy

Thanks defcon, your site rocks +subscribed!

Sorry stupid novice question please bear with me and if could help clarify this doubt its sincerely appreciated.

Currently i'm using 7.10, have installed hardy on my laptop and its very slick and nice, no issues so far,

if i upgrade my desktop which has a list of softwares installed an example would be virtualbox, would have to update these afterwards or they will continue to work with this upgraded version?

cheers,

parthi

Thanks defcon, is there a way to find what needs to be recompiled once you have upgraded?

Will google for this and hopefully i will be able to find some answers

cheers

Swell site you have here. You have enough hacks and tweaks to keep me occupied for days. Just followed your instructions for the upgrade. Only one problem. The top panel icons and the top panel have become a bit too big and I am not able to figure out how to make them smaller. This in the gtkrc does not seem to help anymore( for the top panel size):

gtk-icon-sizes ="panel-menu=16,16 :p anel=16,16:gtk-menu=16,16:gtk-large-toolbar=

16,16:gtk-button=16,16:gtk-small-toolbar=16,16"

Any ideas? Thanks for a great site in any case.

A couple of other issues after the upgrade:

1. My machine is a Dell Inspiron 6400. With an Nvidia 7300 Go graphics card. I was using the restricted wireless driver ipw3945 in Gutsy. After the upgrade those drivers weren't available. Then I learned that they have been replaced by the open source iwl3945 driver. Modprobing iwl3945 got my wireless working but without the wireless led indicator. Further googling told me that a

'sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-hardy'

would upgrade to the latest iwl3945 version. Now i have my wireless led indicator back.

2. The Power Manager in Gutsy has sliders for adjusting the display brightness. In Hardy those sliders aren't there. I had to add the 'Brightness Applet' to the Gnome panel for that.

Since at the moment i am not interested in encrypting my hard disk partitions I have removed cryptdisks and cryptdisks-early from my startup services. I hope that it won't cause any problems.

I don't remember seeing the service 'mountoverflowtemp' before. Can i disable that too?

I tried the command line you gave and it didn't work! From http://sysblogd.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/ubuntu-h...I believe the command line should be 'do-release-update' instead of 'apt-get dist-upgrade'