I just bought the Dell Inspiron 1420

[Phillip Waclawski]

I called Dell to see if there was a way to avoid the "Vista Tax" on one
of the 1520's, but no go. So, using the educational discount, I ordered
one of the Dell Inspiron 1420's with Ubuntu. I should get it by the end
of September.

Oh, I'm not sure if I can make any more of the meetings, but does
someone post them to this list? I would like to come by and drop off
some of the schwag I got from the LinuxWorld Expo.

And, on the Ubuntu note. I have not played with it much, but I do know
that it uses Sudo instead of su and a root account. How hard is it to
set up a root account/su, and also install the server support software
(apache, mysql, python, php etc)?

I know I can figure it out for myself when I get it, but any advice to
reduce the learning curve will be appreciated. Though I may still be
tempted just to put Fedora 7 on it ;)

Phil Waclawski

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