I’m not sure why, but I have an itch to install Ubuntu on a real machine. I could install it in a VM in Parallels, but for some weird reason I want it on a dedicated machine.

I have a Lenovo clonepad sitting here (it’s basically a ThinkPad but without the branding and price tag) that runs Vista, but I haven’t honestly needed to run Vista for anything for months now, or indeed any version of Windows. I have been holding off doing anything to the machine “just in case”, but I think I’m even past that phase now too. If I need to do some Windows work it will undoubtedly be programming related and I still have my Motion LE1600 and a Parallels VM for that. So why the heck not.

Ubuntu now ships as a nice hybrid bootable live CD that doubles as the install CD. I was pleasantly shocked to see the Gnome based UI appear pretty rapidly after booting off the CD without having to jump through a ton of hoops to get the graphics card recognized. Notebooks, from my own somewhat limited experience, have always been slightly iffy when it comes to getting all their hardware recognized by Linux.

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