From the Ubuntu Front

My first impression of Jaunty Jackalope -- it rocks.

If you want to turn your dowdy old P4 or Athlon into a perfectly usable, up to date box, this is the route. My old AMD 2600 runs as fast as my brand new dual core laptop (take that Vista). Installation was incident free and all the peripherals worked right out of the box.

The only sour note is that the netbook version will not run on my now slightly dated 7" eee. Over the next few weeks I plan to install dual boot partitions on my two Vista boxes. But the bottom line for now is that Ubuntu is getting very close to an outright replacement for Windows.