Today I saw the orange square with a white star appearing in my taskbar, the update notifier, meaning that there are software updates available for my Xubuntu installation. This time I noticed a different block telling me that a “New distribution release ’7.04′ is available” with an “Upgrade” button.

A couple of days ago the highly anticipated Ubuntu distro was released. Release 7.04, code named “Feisty Fawn” promised to have a lot of new features. One of the most promising features, especially for those who consider switching from Windows to Ubuntu, is the ability to have read/write access to NTFS file system partitions.

I wanted to let the rush pass by, which proved to be a smart decision. According to some, the Ubuntu site seemed to be experiencing a lot of downtime on the day of the release. On the day of the release of the Ubuntu distro (with the Gnome desktop) the Xubuntu version of Feisty Fawn was still in beta, according to the Xubuntu website.

Now it is available. And I’m going to upgrade to Feisty Fawn. Unfortunately my connection is rather slow, so this process might take some time. But even though it may take a day or so to upgrade, I will have to go through this, because I want to be up to date.