when I loaded the live CD six months ago, it was more a case of having a couple of hours to kill. Anyway, I was surprised to find that everything worked…just like that. The more I fooled around with it, the more it intrigued me. I was able to do a lot of stuff without having to do a lot of searching and fixing. After working out the details of my home wireless network, I surfed over to the Ubuntu site and read some forum posts. After about an hour, I decided to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows XP.