That's me just completed the installation of eclipse, cfeclipse and flex builder which brings my laptop back up to "code ready". I had been running Ubuntu 7.10 but being the new software slut that I am, I had been falling over myself to perform the upgrade to 8.04. Common sense has always told me to run linux distros a versions old to ensure they're stable but for some reason with Ubuntu I seem to be keen to throw caution to the wind!

So eager was I to do this, yesterday I rushed into work to take advantage of the super rapid connection before anyone else turned up...only thing being, i'd forgotten my power lead....arse....so the upgrade was rescheduled for today.

Rolled into work before 8am and got the upgrade underway, if you were following my twitter feed, you'll know what I thought of that process....a clean install it was then. Backed up my data while downloading the iso and then 40 mintes after running the disk I had a fresh install of Ubuntu...no driver problems, no issues at all...went to connect to the wireless network and yep...typed in the network key and away i went...piece of piss, try doing that on windows.

today's valuable lesson?....sack the upgrade unless you have a lot of time to burn, just back up your data, remember what you need to reinstall and perform a clean install of Ubuntu.