<style type="text/css">  </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">OK, I don't post too much, but this is a story that has been developing for about 2 days.  The Ubuntu upgrade is pretty painless for common computer users provided they have a linux friendly computer in the first place, but if you have customized anything more than a printer, you may be disappointed.  For most of us on this list that is old news.  Even after I thought I had all bugs worked out I still had an openoffice error that I had to delete the entire /home/user/openoffice... file for to disable the plugins. No prior plugins for openoffice work with the 2.4 version.  SETI, bound for total failure because of the kernel change.<br><br>So far, I highly recommending backing up all of your data, do not rely on plugins like the google bookmark plugin, or any other firefox plugins, and your entire home directory.....and talking about plugins, this version of Ubuntu is installing the new beta 5 of firefox.  It completely disabled every reliable plugin I had running on the previous version. Still had to manually go into synaptic and download the tried and proven...Even when I tried to do a source intall from VMWare server it still recognized everything that was supposed to be gone, and when that frustrated me and I tried a XEN, totall crash.<br><br> If we want to make Linux available to all, this makes me just a little skeptical.<br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">That is totally unacceptable for someone that we are trying to convert from winbloze. A broken java or flash could ruin the first experience and make them an open source hater just because this did not deliver regardless of all the hype.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Just for the GLUG..as a reminder. The user has to run this: <b>sudo update-alternatives --config java </b><span style="">if they update from an older version, because after an update they may have several versions of java running and very few of the applications will see it the same way. I highly recommend picking the sun version because the open source version just doesn't work for me or anyone else as best I can tell.</span>  Seems that hardy wants to put the open source version and it totally boincs up the config files.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p>The best thing I have found for making ubuntu friendly is this post:  <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683&highlight=open+jre+config">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683&highlight=open+jre+config</a><br> <br>Unfortunately, you still have to know a lot about linux and your version to make this on work, but it does.<br><br>Cheers!<br>