My Ubuntu wishlist

I’d like to upgrade to Ubuntu but there are some things I need that are holding me back. In my current installation they came either preinstalled or were trivially (read: at most an apt-get install away) available. For Ubuntu things are seemingly much, much more complicated (relatively speaking, of course.)

The wishlist:

  • encrypted (root) filesystem
  • VPN using secure ID
    Apparently there’s a Debian package to make VPN work

  • Lotus Notes (using wine probably)
  • Citrix ICAClient (or equivalent, for when wine simply is not enough)

Setting up an encrypted filesystem seems far from trivial (ignorance is bliss I guess) and doesn’t seem to cover root filesystem either. Maybe later.