Virtual Box
Aside from the minor pain of having to set up the proper user permissions, I'm rather impressed with VirtualBox, a nifty piece of software that lets me run Windows XP in a virtual machine alongside Linux.
With XP on the Dell laptop running alongside Ubuntu 8.04, I can now run iTunes and access iTunes shared music. This cuts out alot of the work I had to do under my previous home network setup.
On the whole, I'm impressed with Hardy Heron. On the Dell, which has a 2.0 Ghz Core2Duo, 2 gigs of Ram, Intel-based shared graphics card and 80 gigabyte hardrive, the Linux OS runs fast and smooth.
I haven't had any of the problems I had under Gutsy and my previous Dell with video drivers or multimedia playback, although I still had to install a bunch of codecs that should have been installed by default.
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https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/musicvideophotos/C/video.html#video-badformats