My MSI Wind netbook (“Hobbit”) has a hard disk with a lot of free space, and is already partitioned into two logical drives. So I decided to turn it into a dual boot XP Home/Ubuntu 8.10 system. Read it here

If you have an MSI Wind don’t hesitate to give Ubuntu Linux a try. With the exception of the WiFi card, everything worked with minimal tweaking. The major change I made was to switch desktop environments from Gnome to XFCE, but that was purely a matter of personal preference.