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With the new Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx in hand, it was time to evaluate how much would work out-of-the-box on it. My last experiences with this were less than satisfactory, but I also was aware that Linux came a long way since then.

So, jumping off the cliff, I installed the 32bit version on my laptop, and to my surprise, the installation was quick and painless and the system booted up smoothly and almost everything just worked !

So instead of giving you a list of what works, here is a list of what does not work :

- Wireless network
- Fingerprint authentication
- Some hotkeys like rotate screen.
- Automatic screen rotation when put in tablet mode.

So this means that the touch screen capabilities of this laptop work out of the box. Well done developers at Ubuntu / Gnome / etc !

So, how do we get the other things to work then ?

First thing i did was to get the wireless up and running. You will need to download a few things so you need another pc with internet connection and a usb stick, or if you have dualboot you can use windows to download it or you can plug in a network cable as that works fine out of the box.

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