I think I'll use this board exclusively for linux and use the secondary as a demo board for VxWorks. Linux Finally got my Vaio playing nice with Mandrake 8. Its actually not too bad of a distribution after all. 2.4.4 and a fresh compile of pcmcia-cs 3.1.25 fixed the pnp problems with my cardbus cards. After I found out how to disable Nautilus from drawing my display and adding icons to my windowmaker session it turned into a damn nice file manager.
Evolution looks ok.
Its just a pain in the ass to delete a big spool of mailing list messages. I wished it dropped to the next message when you've deleted the message your on. I'll look at the source later. This version of Evolution also has SSL support, which is a huge plus over Spruce. I'm so happy with the performance of it that I think I'll kill the windows partition on the laptop later today.