the process of adding Ubuntu is pretty straightforward and took about two hours most of which was for the Ubuntu installation packages to download and unpack. I needed probably about three more hours altogether to get everything just the way I like it -- my XyBuntu setup and the SSH scripts which make automating file mirroring between notebook and desktop instantaneous only required about an hour, although it had been ten years since I last needed to set them up from scratch, having simply copied the setup from netbook to netbook. with only around 12GB to work with, it took some doing to figure out just which Linux programs I most needed, but in the end I managed to get pretty much everything I wanted and just about 2gb to spare. last night I tweaked the grub scripts that fix the suspend problem and speeds bootup, so all that's left really is to work on the scripts to copy between XyWrite and Ubuntu.
I played around a little bit with the Chromebook OS side -- it's not bad and on this machine, quite speedy. since I do use Google Docs more than occasionally, I may boot it from time to time, and will probably see about installing DosBox into it just to see if XyWrite will run.
if there's one drawback, it's the chiclet-style keyboard, which is just -- fine. the Lenovo's was really very good for a laptop that small, though after a considerable amount of wear it was starting to show its age.
