Ubuntu and Beryl: A healthy breakfast

I finished banging Beryl in to my newly installed Ubuntu box last night. I run a dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.10. The mix of IDE and SATA disks made Grub gag a bit but it all went ok in the end. I had previously installed Fedora Core (from 1 to 5) but decided to give Ubuntu a try.

I stumbled up on this link which gave me the idea to give Beryl a try. I had a few issues with the Nvidia drivers, but this how-to solved all my problems. Now I have all sorts of cool animation clogging my screen :)

Without having even googled for it yet, I have some reservations of being able to get a database installed there, but perhaps Wine can handle it? It seems to handle most anything I have thrown at it so far, e.g. Max Payne and Serious Sam run pretty smoothly there.