I upgraded from Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) on Tuesday. The upgrade itself went very smooth, albeit that I needed to manually update Grub to point to the new kernel (since my Grub-boot disk is not the same as the root disk).
Findings sofar:
– VMWare 1.04 Server runs better than 1.03 under Feisty. It even compiles on its own, no installer-hacks.
– Oracle DB 10.2.0.1 runs fine. No relinking needed (but don’t tell Oracle, they have been relinking the network libraries since the early days. It worked then, so it will work now…. *sigh*)
– Firefox WITH Flash works. Via nswrapperplugin. The Flash plugin times out (so it seems) but refreshing a page works. No need to restart Firefox.
– Compiz window manager works like a charm. Very nice. Real rain outside, and raindrops on the desktop!
But…Compiz (without it, no problems) breaks some things too:
– Netbeans 6.0 beta 1 starts, but the window stays blank
– JDeveloper 11g (tech preview 2) does not start at all and gives a “can’t connect to X11 window server” error. Yes, the DISPLAY variable is set correctly.