My sister complained about their old sluggish winxp-spyware-infected laptop once again. I’ve cleaned it out a few times, but I guess the hardware specs arent really up to todays standard anyway. So I figured I’d replace it with a new laptop with ubuntu on it, just to see how they liked it. I’ve been considering doing this to a few clients with minimal desktop needs, but havent really gotten to it yet, so I figured this would be a great starting point, or else I just ruined family dinners from now on. :)

Installation

Started out doing a netinstall of ubuntu 10.10 from a usb memory, thanks to unetbootin.

Needed software

• Openoffice
• firefox/chrome
• BankID(swedish solution for electronic identification, http://fribid.se/ )
• Backup-solution, finally settled on crashplan who backs up to my home server
• Nordea linux login,http://www.nordea.se/Privat/Internet+och+telefon/e-legitimation/Linux+och+e-legitimation+p%C3%A5+kort/1133602.html