Gutsy Gibbon in vmware

I finally installed ubuntu 7.10 in a vmware virtual machine on my XP box to start to play with it. What I was really interested in was:

1. making beryl work but I'm having some trouble since I'm inside a vmware instance. if you haven't heard of beryl (an OpenGL accelerated desktop which is a combined window manager and composite manager) check out this 4 minute youtube video which has garnered more than 1 million hits which gives an impressive demo. there are other related videos this will pull in. more precisely there is a video of beryl on a eee!

2. eventually installing ubuntu on my new eee. I was going to do it from the how-tos but it looks like they are assembling a nicely tweaked and optimized Ubuntu version for the eee and polishing off what they call eeeXubuntu over at the eeeuser forum. they also posted how to get beryl working on the stock distro.

But I'm already getting used to the xandros distro (debian fork not considered to be debian compatible) on the 800 x 480 screen that comes with the eee although beryl on my eee would be cool.

Today I learned you can open a terminal window by clicking Ctrl+Alt+T. I next typed in "konqueror" to get the konqueror browser up. I also installed the littlefox theme on Firefox to squeeze a little more real estate onto the browser window. btw skype worked out of the box and I made some calls already on it with really crisp voice quality over wi-fi.

Not bad considering I just got my little black eee today from UPS after buying it at bestbuy last Friday (btw: already back-ordered if you're thinking of doing the same for X-mas).

One thing I'm noticing too is that with my Mac mini, N800, ubuntu vmware, and now my eee laptop I really find little use for actually using Windows.