Project Sputnik

I just recently setup my Dell XPS 13 laptop. I downloaded the ISO image and instead of following the directions I used unetbootin. The only hiccup I had doing this way was when I tried to replace the operating system from the installation menu; GRUB was installed in my thumb drive instead of the hard drive. I had to reboot of the thumb drive and do a manual installation choosing to install the boot manager on the hard drive.  This worked and know I have Ubuntu installed. I haven't had a chance to play with it much but it does have gVIM and emacs already installed. Now I need to install the android SDK package.