It's alive! Alive!

I'm posting this from the brand-new computer that I've just finished building.

Case: Coolermaster Elite
Motherboard: Asus M2A-VM-HDMI (integrated ATI graphics, grrr)
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 4200
Ram: Kingston 1 gig DDR2 800MHz
Hard drive: Seagate SATA2 160gig HDD
DVD-burner: Pioneer PATA 20x DVD burner (chose PATA because it gets mapped to /dev/dvd like most Linux applications expect)
Chassis fan: Linda bought this herself. I asked her to get the cheapest one the shop had. She brought me one worth $35 with blue LEDs around the outside. The front of the case is basically a fine mesh, so when you turn the lights out you can see the lights inside the computer. Cool.
Operating System: Ubuntu GNU/Linux 8.04 beta

Hardy Heron is certainly a hardy little bird. It's still in beta but it feels rock-solid. I now have every confidence in it working very nicely on Linda's new computer. I'll still dist-upgrade it to the release version, when it comes out. And I'll have no hesitations in dist-upgrading my main computer to it at that time too.

Once I've configured everything, I'll take it around to Linda's place and set it up for her with her existing e-mail account. As this is the first computer I've built for someone else, I'm going to make up a case badge for myself so others can identify my work :-)