Installed Ubuntu on AMD64

Exams are finished! Yeah, finally! Last one, Advanced Computer Architecture, will be good enough, I think. I just made one big mistake in some assembler code: misread a register and so made the complete exercise (6/20 points) bad. I noticed it just 10 minutes before deadline, so no time enough to restart. The other questions will be OK, I think.

Now the exams are finished, I've some time to install Linux on the notebook at home. It's an Acer Aspire 1522WLMi. Some points I (don't) like:

• Easy partition management
• Excellent localization management: after choosing language, I just had to press OK a few times for country and keyboard selection
• Allmost all hardware good detected, including the 1280x800 screen resolution
• No support for the WLAN device, I'll ask frocksii about his experiences, I thought he did it with the 64-bit beta of ndiswrapper
• After installation, the X-server didn't work. I had to mess up a bit with XF86Conf. Indeed, still XFree, no xorg.
• It was my first experience with gnome since a long time and it seems nicely evolved, I like it
• A few missing icons (as the "show desktop" button, the items in the "computer" menu,...
• I'm automatically logged in with my username.

Let's hope I can get the WLAN working, because now I have to go upstairs for a cabled LAN connection and it's cold there... I'll write more about the progress here.

Lot's of good luck to all people still having exams! Just a few more days and it'll be also time to party for you!