I have been intrigued about the Dell Sputnik project and the idea of developer profiles. While the project promises a Dell laptop running Ubuntu it is still not available for the average consumer. The great thing is they appear to be open sourcing the profile and cloud launching tools.
Since neither the tools nor laptop were available, I recently purchased a Lenovo IdeaPad with Windows 8. The first thing I did was to download and install Ubuntu 12.04 wiping out the Windows partition. I was able to get it up and running fairly quickly, but I didn't like that I was running the BIOS in legacy mode. I felt I needed to get it to work in EFI. So, after the second install... I was tired of configuring the settings and installing software manually.
I roughly followed https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI.
I had seen a post on Techcrunch recently that Ubuntu had launched a beta version of a Mac Ubuntu One client. (I use Macs at home and work as my primary PCs) So I thought it would be cool to setup and create a Bash - Puppet repo script to rebuild my Ubuntu box and be able to access it from anywhere. So now to rebuild the laptop to my liking after the install, I just load up Ubuntu One and run the bash script.
I suppose I could have used GitHub to store the script and then manually installed Git to get the script... but I wanted to play with Ubuntu One a bit.
I am new to Ubuntu and haven't moved over to using it for anything to useful yet. My next steps are to get LXC containers going and play with provisioning dev environments.
Update: I have noticed odd syncing issues where files are on some devices but not others. Not sure I'll stick with this solution.
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