A while back I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10. It went so smoothly that I didn’t even think to mention it.
There are significant improvements though, the graphics effects work really well straight out. They look great and aren’t over the top. Things seems snappier. The support for non-free binary drivers is improving. Plus support for non-free formats like mp3s, etc is smoother again. It really is Linux for everyone is that respect. One of the less mentioned and most useful improvements is the inclusion of the complete ntfs-3g drivers. So now if you’re dual booting an ntfs drive with winxp or vista (probably most people choose to do this), then you don’t have to worry about how to transfer data across the drives. It use to be that you could read the ntfs drive but not write to it. Obviously windows doesn’t even know about the ext3 linux partition. Now linux can safely and flawless write to the ntfs drive.
If you’re installing from scratch this will probably be setup by default, but if you’ve upgraded from 7.04 and you’ve previously setup the ntfs partition to be mounted you just need to edit your /etc/fstab file and change the filesystem from ntfs to ntfs-3g.
I use the options: defaults,locale=en_US.utf8
