"These are short and easy things to do which can make your Linux desktop even more convenient than it is currently. Trying Ubuntu out without changing your distribution or creating a new drive partition or installing it on another HD, setting up OpenOffice so ability to read/write Windows Office 2007 word processor documents are what you'll learn how to do today.
"The instructions assume you've got a working VMware Server, perhaps one you set up to run a Windows VMware guest. If you don't, I recommend you find VMware Server instructions specific to your distro..."
