Well I've also made the plunge. Received the CD for Ubuntu 9.1. I run two lappies. One for music apps and one for internet. At the moment I have Ubuntu installed on both machines "inside Windows". Works very well. I did all of the updates at a localWIFI spot as I only have dial up at home. Had no issues at all connecting. The computers are networked together both in windows and Ubuntu. Once I'm satisfied that I no longer need Windows for internet I'll reinstall Ubuntu exclusively on the internet machine. What makes it easy for me is that I've used Firefox & Thunderbird for years. All I have to do is copy the profiles in Windows to the profiles in Ubuntu and I'm right up yo date. Simple. I'll continue with both on the music lappy. The last piece of the puzzle is to get dial up working. Instead of trying to get the Win Modem working, most have not had success, I'm going to get this item that has had 100% success with Ubuntu.

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John
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