hardware

My new toy arrived

Dell XPS 8300 desktop to replace my old (yet still robust) Lenovo T60p laptop (for the past 2 years I’ve been using it as a desktop).
the newbie comes with i5 processor and 6G RAM, and I just put ubuntu 11.04 and fedora 15 on it, plus the existing Windows 7, it is really hard to decide which linux I should boot with
It will take me some time to install all the things I need, but nagios should be relatively easy, was trying to install that on my Macbook Pro with Macport, such a nightmare.
I spent 2 days trying to figure out the usage of gcc –arch flags and still have no clue how to fix that. decided to give up on that.
So far everything went pretty smooth, found this blog post to help with install rails 3 on ubuntu 11.04 but still having some minor troubles with rvm. Also the dual screen setting doesn’t look very easy to deal with in Ubuntu (my machine comes with only one HDMI plug and I had to use a Diamond BUV195 USB to DVI adapter to extend the screen). Fedora 15 meanwhile is giving me a hard time on the wireless adapter. I have to say under windows 7 those were handled much better (mostly because some of the drivers are only available for windows). All my wacky devices are recognized and installed, no question asked.
Looks I just found some gigs for the weekend to figure out, can’t wait!