I've been running 7.10 Gutsy on 60 computers with a powerful 64 bit server running on 6 Gigs of Ram (surprisingly little RAM is used) for a good 3 months now. I've read the reports of 7.10 being a failure and I have to disagree on most accounts. If you don't modify too much and you know what you are doing, things work wonderfully, with more speed, and better login procedures than ever before. There is one area, though, which seems to have gotten worse rather than better, and this is the attempt at auto detecting all graphics cards and monitors. It simply does not work with older cards or newer cards (50% of my cards needed to be hacked in the lts.conf file where possible) or needed a special chroot (newer ati containing cards, since the bundled ubuntu ati driver doesnt work.)    My school has just bought a newish intel (x3200 gma) containing laptop and surprise, no auto-detection under any circumstances. (yes I've tried 16 bit and 24 bit graphic modes in lts.conf)    Another ati laptop they bought hangs on startup (thought it was due to apic, but adding the necessary noapic stuff to grub doesnt help.)    3 widescreen monitors (1440x900) will not startup in that resolution no matter what I try... So my question is, why o why did they take out xconfig? It is absolutely essential to be able to hack the graphic cards and monitor options... and with Gutsy it has become an almost impossible task. This was not an issue with 7.04, so in some respects, I feel the disappointment that others mention...    Sadly, the only solution I see is making special chroots for all the exceptions to the rule (auto-detection of the graphics card details) David Van Assche