|| Note that the 8.04 release of Ubuntu is expected any day now... some
|| interesting looking improvements have been reported, see for example:
||
|| http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1570
||
|| It might be worth waiting to install that version.


Thanks for the heads-up.   The umenu (and "Install INSIDE Windows") is a
nice consideration. This will surely help minimize the fear of test-driving
Ubuntu for newbies.    But for me.. I would pick the "Boot into a New
World".  One day I forgot that I had removed the live-cd from the tray.. and
the system proceeded to boot to WinME.  As I had expected, the video
rendered in 16 colour mode using my NEW video card!  It also failed to
cooperate with my newly configured router-based network (I had it previously
configured using ICS and that worked wonderfully well), but it disabled
access to the router with a message something like "A conflict is detected
with 192.168.0.1 and MAC address..." and proceeded to simply disable the
interface!  WinME is junk.  I'm not going back there.

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