explain better. To make corrections or suggest other settings, send me a comment. I will gladly read and answer it. Starting the Installation I will not describe the installation. I recommend you to leave a partition of about 25GB for the system, a swap partition with the size of your RAM and a separate data partition (if you have dual boot with Windows, leave the data partition as NTFS or FAT32). The usb flash's installation is much faster than by CD. I recommend setting aside a 1 GB flash drive just for that. Configuring the sis 771 video cardIn my case, I have a Positivo notebook with a Sis 771/671 video card. The driver has been changed for Ubuntu 10.04 but there is already a tutorial that works just fine. Modifying the repositories To generate the list of repositories I'm using Ubuntu Source List Generator:http://repogen.simplylinux.ch/On the website, you define the country and the repositories you want and it creates a sources.list file. You need to replace the contents of your sources.list file with this new content. To do this, open a terminal or press Alt + F2 (run application) and type (or paste) this line:gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.listRemove the entire contents of the file and replace with the one generated by the site. Once you've updated the list of repositories, upgrade the system. In a terminal, type:sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude full-upgradeThis will cause your system to be updated with the latest version of the packages. It should download and update hundreds of megabytes, depending on the age of your installation.My sources.list file, after created and modified, is this .From that point on, you can install other programs, fonts, drivers, codecs and everything else. Installing the ubuntu-restricted-extras package The ubuntu-restricted-extras package installs a series of codecs, applications, fonts and drivers that have some type of restriction and therefore are not part of standard installation. Among them, we can mention: Java Virtual Machine (used on some home banking websites, for example) flash (without it, youtube does not work) true type fonts (that you get on Windows), audio and video codecs (wmv, divx, mp3, rmvb, etc.) and others. To install this package, type the following at a terminal:sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras Installing multiple applications at onceUbuntu comes with a standard corporate desktop, but I miss many applications. I will not explain the use of each one. Install all, try and create your own list. If you do not like any of them, you can simply remove it:sudo aptitude install amule audacious awn-manager bpython cheese DeVeDe funcoeszz gcompris-sound-ptbr gedit-plugins gnome-do gnome-do-plugins gnome-mplayer gparted htop ipython ktuberling meld mousepad mplayer nautilus-dropbox nautilus-gksu nautilus-open-terminal openoffice . org-l10n-en openssh-server-minimal python3 picasa pidgin skype startupmanager sun-java6-jre traceroute tuxmath tuxpaint tuxpaint-plugins-extras ubuntu-restricted-full vim virtualbox vlc wireshark xchat This process should download hundreds of megabytes, and might take some time to run. Configuring the desktop On my desktop, I just keep an upper panel, and delete the bottom one that comes by default. I have been experimenting with using a dock (AWN) and have not used the window listing. My setup