The Gibbon is Gutsy

Shortly after writing that post, the combination of fiddly fixes from the parallels and ubuntu forae worked and I could finish the install of Ubuntu 7.10, "Gutsy Gibbon," in the Parallels VM.

Since then I've run it a few hours, verifying the install procedure for Guiguts and I must say, Linux in the latest Ubuntu version is getting very polished. The minor annoyances I had previously have been mostly smoothed away.

It's so nice when things work...