We’ve covered Ubuntu in the past, first in a rave by RickGeek and recently in a beta preview by Sal Cangeloso. After reading Sal’s impressions back in April, I downloaded the ISO and installed it on a spare machine I had lying around. It was beta but it was impressive, as Sal had previously mentioned.Since April I’ve heard people occasionally singing the praises of Linux and specifically Ubuntu, but still didn’t pay much attention, nor ever use my installation of it. Enter Monday evening.

On Monday an older Toshiba Core Duo laptop was returned to me. The first thing I noticed when firing it up was that it was now loaded with spyware and malware. It had come back from a stay at my parents and my mother does a lot of online surveys, so you can imagine what the XP-based machine was now infested with.

A friend was doing something in Linux on his box and wanted me to test it out so I needed to setup a Linux environment. He was running Ubuntu and recommended I do the same, so I gave it a go, on my troubled Toshiba.

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