I started a Ubuntu Desktop install this evening. The install part took about 20 minutes on a AMD64 Shuttle system. First stop was updating almost 300 packages. Then adding medibuntu and virtualbox’s sources to my /etc/apt/sources.list.
Then I started customizing and adding stuff like OpenOffice 3, additional packages I want, the printer, some nifty tools and utilities like SSHfs. I added VirtualBox 2.1.4 and some other stuff. I scp’ed a whole bunch of images for my desktop background. I brought up a Windows 7 beta VDI I have.
I think all this took me about 2.5 hours and I have an updated 8.10 system which can do company mail using outlook 2007 and do my GTD stuff as well. I’m set and just about productive.
Whoops I forgot to add ubuntu-restricted-extras it appears and build-essential so I can build essential things.
Now its getting done. I need to touch and shine. More on it later 
