I have finally got around to doing some upgrades yesterday.
First off at work I upgraded my system from Kubuntu Fistey Fawn 7.04 to Gutsy Gibbon 7.10
I found the following command useful to check the version of my system “lsb_release -a”, both before and after the upgrade.
user@desktop:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
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