I just couldn't resist and decided to upgrade a perfect/tuned/optimized machine to the new version of Ubuntu via the Synaptic distribution upgrade. All went well for half an hour or so and then the upgrade crashed. A whole barrage of bug reporting options appeared and it eventually landed up sitting there with the normal desktop showing. I knew the kernel had upgraded etc, so I rebooted.
The results were better than I expected, it booted and even BOINC was alive and still running the 190 series driver from the old installation. However I keep getting warnings about my BIOS and ECC memory problems and needing to reboot. Looking at the forums, I am not the only one affected by this. I will give it a few days and see if there are any patches released ... if not, I will take the plunge and do a clean install.
The only BOINC causality appears to be QMC@Home. The Orca work-units appear to run OK (and as slowly as usual) but the normal workunits crash due to libstdc++.so.5 missing from Karmic. I will try and drag them out from an older distro when I have some time.
My initial feeling is that the upgrade from 9.04 (Jaunty) wasn't really worth the effort but will see if that feeling changes when a few more bugs are ironed out.
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