Upgraded to Jaunty Jackalope

Though I have upgraded my Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex to Jaunty Jackalope by April 2008, I could write on this experience only now. It is better to be late than never.

Let me list out my experiences on the upgrade:

1. This time around, I did upgrade instead of installing anew.
2. The up-gradation was smooth without any unintended incidence.
3. My third-party repository sources got erased.
4. Unsupported applications got removed.
5. My network manager worked without any hitch this time, which was a source of pain during my early up-gradations.
6. As usual, my video card drivers did not work. However, the hardware drivers function under system/administration worked fine. It provided a suitable NVidia driver and installed without any hitch.
7. Alas! My PC sound was not working. After some reasearch in the net, I was informed that the new sound application "Pulse Audio" needs to be installed. This is a new application in Jaunty Jackalope. This application did not install automatically during installation. After installation of this application, my PC started sounding.
8. I had to reinstall Google Earth, since it was removed during my up-gradation.
9. As usual, my creative webcam stopped working after up-gradation. I tried reinstalling ov51x-jpeg driver. It does not work. I may have committed some mistakes while reinstalling. I may have to correct this problem later.
10. Now, Jaunty Jackalope is working fine, excepting for web cam glitch.

Overall, Ubuntu is becoming less and less painful while upgrading. Ubuntu still operates well in my, more than five year old, PC. It is almost friendly like Windows and as stable as Windows, if not more. I started loving Ubuntu more as I upgrade.

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