I recently upgraded my server to Ubuntu 9.10, and it finally fixed one thing that had been bugging me ever since I built this system: the audio drivers. The default drivers that came with Ubuntu wouldn’t properly set the line-in volume, so I had to go and get a newer version from Realtek’s site. But, every time there was a system update that refreshed the driver modules, I’d have to reinstall the newer drivers and reboot again. Fortunately, now the default drivers work perfectly fine as of this release, and I’ll hopefully never need to build them separately again.
It also updated MythTV, which was a bit of a surprise and I needed to go get a newer build of the OS X frontend. That took a while to get working because it would just suddenly stop running immediately after launching it, until I figured out that I had to run the main executable directly with a ‘-r’ option to reset which theme it wanted to use.