The stable kernel is at 3.1.7 and they have a patch now for 3.2 which I was glad to see as I am running on 3.2.0 -7.

I am downloading the linux source file which is the patch for the 3.2.0-7.13 kernel. It is like 81 MB.

I have what my programmer friends call ADOS - Attention Deficient Oh Sparkly

I love Ubuntu 11.1 because it's soooooooo pretty and renders such pretty web pages. Ohhhhhhhhhh shiny sparkly ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

Ubuntu 12.04 is pretty, too.

I think you might mean 11.10 ? Ubuntu's releases have been like this:

...
10.04
10.10
11.04
11.10


With the new 12.04 coming up soon.

The stable kernel is at 3.1.8 and the mainline 3.2.0 is showing up on UbuntuUpdates.org

http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package_logs

http://kernel.org/

I have used earlier versions of lubuntu on my ibm 600 think pad. I worked great and still does. Only thing is the sound doesn't work. Its beyound me to fix but other have worked around this. Just saying that it works fine on low end systems.

I use 11.10 at work all day long. I do tons of adim documents and other related type of work. Editing pictures is a big thing here for reports. All said, the unity desktop just allows the flow of work to happen very nicely. At first I migrated to linux mint katya and since they went to lisa I rock back in forth between the two. Work laptop has ubuntu 11.10 my laptop is running lisa. I really enjoy them both, however I like the look and feel of lisa and linux mint's philosophy on how things should be and that they listen to the end use.

Microsoft word = 300 libre Office = free

windows 7 about 250 Linux = free

I just choose free all the time and it works super. I do the install and never have any problems with the configs.

The stable kernel has made it up to 3.2.5. The second Alpha edition boasted a kernel of 3.2.2 and the little partial upgrades and updates have been messing with the Gnome 2 but the Gnome 2 with no frills is doing good as long you can expect some minor disruptions with Nautilus. I haven't had any sound problems yet but then I am using Pulse and ALSA. I have had some aberrational glitches with Chromium but the same thing happens with Firefox concerning the maximum on page opening. It might be a Nvidia thing. I am not using a notebook or a laptop.

Tried Ubuntu recently, but with Unity, like GNome3, I'm just completely disappointed. I'm not a fan of forcing users to use a certain interface for computing. That's why I liked gnome2, you could make it yours, have as much or as little as you wanted.

Anywho, tried Kubuntu as an alternative, ran too slow and at almost a gig of memory after a fresh install on first boot.
Mint - Couldn't really get into, being based on Ubuntu. I know they have a kde spin, and I've heard great things, but the VirtualBox install left a bad taste in my mouth.
Debian - KDE out of the box SUCKED. Couldn't get Composite to work, and trust me, I tried opensource and proprietary drivers for my video card.
ArchLinux - couldn't get kde to start, and again, I hate gnome3.

FINALLY rediscovered my love of Fedora.
KDE running, uses only ~340Mb of ram (still heavy, but meh).
No ugly xfce or lxde crap, just my lovely kde xD

sry, just had to rant about the current state of linux distros in the world.

I'm glad there's a fork of gnome2, I really, REALLY hope it lasts.

I have been a distro hopper for a while now. Alpha 1 of Fedora 17 came out. I tried the LXDE version of Fedora and didn't care for it or I should say didn't understand it. I have tried Fedora at different times and variations of it other than spins. What they have done with the experimental Nvidia driver I found to be impressive. Yeah. I was reading up on Mint KDE. I thought Mepis did real good with KDE. The Kernel is at 3.2.8 stable and 3.3 rc5 mainline.