I was expecting some hassle getting wireless going after the install. Instead, it worked out of the box. I did have to recreate my login keyring in seahorse for reasons that I didn’t bother to pursue; the default keyring didn’t want to unlock on login, but since I had nothing in it, I lost nothing in recreating it.

As far as post-install modifications, I made /tmp, /var/tmp and /var/log all tmpfs file systems to reduce writes to the Eee’s SSD (I also chose ext2 instead of a journaling file system during the install and mounted it noatime for the same reason). I had to hunt down and install a 2.x version of Firefox in parallel to Firefox 3.x since F5’s FirePass VPN client doesn’t work in 3.x. (Cheap shot: The reason why they call it clientless is that it doesn’t actually work on any clients out there. In seriousness, the advantage over traditional VPN clients just isn’t there.)

Other than the above and installing a couple stock Ubuntu packages (Thunderbird and libstdc++5 for Firefox), I haven’t had to make any tweaks to the vanilla install. If you’ve got an Eee, I highly recommend this upgrade.