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).