Well I upgraded from 7.04 to 7.10 then did some updates and after that
lost my ethernet connection and could not get it back no matter what I
did. I wiped it clean and put 7.04 back on and it works like a champ.
I think I will stay away from 7.10 until they figure out the bugs. I
should have done the same as I do for windoze and wait to upgrade. I
am still running XP on my other machine and refuse to upgrade to vista
for the same reason.

I haven't done the upgrade yet, but I note the following, though I'm not quite
sure what it means:



In Ubuntu 7.10, network-manager only manages interfaces that are marked for
roaming. Thus, all interfaces that were previously managed by network-manager
will be set to roaming mode during upgrade. Technically, this takes any
interface stanzas using the dhcp method with no options and that are marked
auto, and removes them from /etc/network/interfaces. If you rely on your
interfaces being started by ifupdown when the system starts up, you need to
re-enable them in /etc/network/interfaces manually, or disable roaming in System
-> Administration -> Network.

My computers get an IP address by dhcp, so I want to take precautions to be sure
that this problem does not occur with me. If it does, you can't google to find a
solution!

I haven't done the upgrade yet, but I note the following,
Now it looks like I'm going to do a clean install of 7.10. While using Feisty, I
downloaded the upgrade of Open Office and my system never fully recovered,
eventually becoming unbootable. I have a separate /home partition, so it's just
a matter of reinstalling applications.

Firefox 2.0.0.8 is now available as an update, this might fix it.

I forgot, if you have evms installed, deinstall it. also disable
trackerd in sessions. Trackerd can cause memory and cpuhogging and
evms can cause a usb hdd problem or slow shutdowns (evms, enterprise
volume management system)