Installing Dell M1530 XPS

Just documenting a few tips from my move from an old Dell Inspiron to a shiny new Dell M1530 XPS with 6GB ram. Add repository: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex": sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list Then, add the GPG Key: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update Installed Filezilla Transfering my Evolution mail files was soooo easy. 1) Export from old machine 2) Copy file to new machine 3) Import into Evolution 4) Send/Receive!! VMWare setup was a breeze with the .bundle package. 1) Download Ubuntu 64 bit bundle package (Approx. 350MB) 2) cd /home/username/Desktop 3) sudo sh VMware-Workstation-xxxxxxxx.bundle 4) Creating Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit virtual machine? Check this key mapping issue: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/177321 Installed Google Gadgets. The facebook slideshow is pretty cool (albeit a bit distracting) Installed Google Desktop Installed Microsoft Fonts so web pages look like they are designed to look. http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/09/09/installing-microsoft-fonts/ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts sudo fc-cache -fv Tried using the finger reader but didn't work very well, in fact it stopped the synaptic package manager from loading??? Anyway I don't think it is so much easier than typing in a password that I would bother trying to figure out the issues! Haven't looked into the web cam issues yet (not working yet).

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