Having installed and updated XP into the first partition of the old laptop, I proceeded to installing Geubuntu.  I put in the Geubuntu Live CD and loaded the OS.  The login screen looked quite nice, sort of metallic grey.  I had to login which was a bit weird (don't remember having to do that when installing k/ubuntu).  I had to read the Geubuntu doco's (gasp!) to find out that the login and pass is geubuntu/geubuntu (go figure).  The desktop loaded, and all I can say is "wow!", it looks pretty sweet!  The OSX-style dock at the bottom is very nice, it scrolls smoothly and has animations, plus system utils like clock (of course), machine temperature, laptop battery life and cpu meter (which looks disabled presently), plus space for currently-opened apps, etc.

My first impression is that it's fast.  Faster than plain Ubuntu was on this laptop anyway.  I read somewhere that the Enlightenment wm uses a different graphics library or something, that it's not dependent on the video card like GNOME and KDE.  I can't seem to find where I read that, only this.

I then selected Install from the System -> Administration menu (not to be confused with the E menu on the dock).  I had to configure the Linux partitions, basically root (10gb) and swap (580mb) partitions.  It took me awhile to remember/figure out how to use the partition manager, and also which file system to use (I chose ext3 for root, though I think last time I used ReiserFS, can't remember). 
Well, it's installing now, so that's a good thing...

dum de dum de dum... 84%, downloading language packs...
I love installing new OS's, there's that exhiliration of looking forward to something new... geeky I know, but whatever.  It's like the smell of a new book: it smells good AND you get to read it.  Bonus.  ;)

83%? It's gone backwards... weird... it's installing OpenOffice now...

The dock contains some default apps: Firefox, Thunderbird, Terminal, Synaptic, XMMS music player, Songbird (not sure what that's for), VLC video player, GIMP image editor.  Similar to things I'd put in the dock anyway (Firefox, Terminal and Synaptic are musts).  I'd also add the file manager in there.  Apparently Enlightenment has its own built-in file manager (compared to GNOME's Nautilus and KDE's Konqueror).

Configuring boot loader... hope it puts XP in there also!

Ah it's finished, rebooting now...

Hrmmm.... the cd popped out, and there's a big blue square on the screen.  BSOD?
I had to do a manual shutdown. 

Restarting shows the GRUB boot manager (and there is XP, yay!).  Loading Geubuntu from hd now...
Linux partition is being checked after apparently not being checked for 49709 days, mm-hmm.
Hrmm it restarted itself, having found disk errors. 
It seems to have an issue with restarts.  Have to force shutdown again...

Booting up again, seems okay now.  Got to login screen.  Logged in okay (glad I wrote down my pass correctly!).  Desktop loaded, Update Manager alerted updates available (installing now).  System temp around 60C (cripes!), battery at 42%.  CPU meter still not working (is this a bios thing?).  Songbird looks like iTunes.

I'm gonna play with it a bit.  As Enlightenment is still beta and Geubuntu has known issues, I'm not expecting it to be perfect, as long as it's useable and doesn't crash too often, it'll be okay.  After all, look at Windows. ;)