I installed ubuntu 6.10 using net-install method, and it was a no-problem installation.
After the initial installation, I’d to install several small packages for essential features like MP3 support, jre & flash-plugin for firefox, mplayer. I followed the instructions at the link : http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy
The link provides all the information required to do all such configuration/setup tasks. But I had 2 problem relating to keyboard and sound card.
The keyboard was not working properly, as in some of the keys like ” and ‘ did not work properly. I’d to use the following command :
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
and change the keyboard configuration. I removed all the customizations displayed by the configuration script.
The other problem was that of sound card. I could access the sound card as root; but not as a non-root user. I resolved the problem by changing the permissions of the non-root user as explained below :
Go to : System->Administration->Users and Groups
Here select the non-root User and Click Properties. In the User Privileges Section:
Check the following :Use audio devices
Use CD-ROM drives
After that when I restarted Gnome; both keyboard, sound problems were resolved.
For performance enhancement I used prelink and added it to daily cron. Steps are mentioned at the following link:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1971
Ubuntu 6.10 is no doubt a great product. But I’m yet to install/test Mandriva One 
