The other day I upgraded Ubuntu on my laptop to the latest 10.04-release. It went without a hitch, and because my laptop is unaffected by the I/O bug it went fairly quickly. A little over an hour, most of which I spent watching “Damnation Alley” and occasionally checking up on the laptop.
After it was done I rebooted, and everything was peachy. Nothing major to report, except that I now can use Compiz/Desktop effects on it without X freezing after two-three minutes. That’s a major improvement in my book, since I now can play (an admittedly quite jerky) Xmoto on it. Previously X would freeze up whenever any accelerated graphics were in use.
Quite nice.