I just finished installing Ubuntu Linux on my VMWare machine. It was a painless experience (I’m a windows developer with almost zero experience working on Linux), but then I got this little notification:

Let it not be said that just windows has a zillion updates to run when you first install it.

I’m going to be running Tomcat on an Ubuntu installation, so I can run my Grasshopper generated applications (DotJava apps?) there.  I’ll be using this manual to do so.