Hoary is pretty good and a lot of things Just Worked. There's a few things this version of Gnome doesn't do (I'm used to WindowMaker), but it's good enough.

On my new work PC, though, I had problems. It's a Dell Optiplex GX520 so, predictably, it's filled with (mostly) Intel hardware that Linux 2.6.10 almost but not quite recognizes. The Broadcom gigabit chip didn't workl in install, but after getting the proper driver on to it (thankfully USB storage works), found that the stock tg3 driver worked. X didn't like the graphics - it didn't know the chip's PCI ID. Luckily, I found a link to someone who'd modified the i810 driver in Hoary's xorg package and re-packaged it. Works a charm.

The latest problem was sound. Again, it was an unknown PCI ID. Kernel 2.6.11 worked - but crashes predictably before my Gnome session is loaded. :-(. So I patched the 2.6.10 intel8x0 driver so it knew the newer PCI IDs. Works fine, now.

I'm looking forward to Breezy - lots of Gnome upgrades as well as OpenOffice 2.

Wade.