[ltp] Feisty to Gutsy dist-upgrade

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:38:15 +0000


Marcus Hagn wrote:
> Hello,
> if you have everything running on Feisty, why do you want to upgrade?
> Upgrading (although from an earlier version) caused a lot of trouble
> on my X40. Especially suspend and hibernate was not working and after
> some tweaking I got only suspend to work (still working on hibernate).
> Everything else did not work better as before. Same or higher power
> consumption, network manager still somewhat flakey, boot time at least
> the same (that is only my "feeling", did not take hard numbers).
> I would really keep feisty and wait for the next release. It is not
> worth the hazzle. I expect the next version to be more polished.
> 

If you just want the latest versions of some apps, take a look at prevu.

Best wishes,

Richard