I have installed Ubuntu Gutsy on an F3Sc. Everything worked out-of-the box, but the sound is very very low. When I turn both PCM and the volume slider to the top, the volume is about right for watching a movie with headphones (Koss Porta...
I recently bought the mentioned PC with VistaPremium installed. The first thing I did was to shrink the ntfs partition and install Ubuntu instead. Today when I wanted to boot into Vista, neither the OS or the Recovery Partition...