I was hoping by now I could have said something like "GPU mining is deprecated, only ASIC code is supported from here on"... but it seems that was a pipedream

, and scrypt is coming back to haunt me with a vengeance

I haven't seen so many new questions about GPU mining in over a year...
lol - ASICs just mean that GPU scrypt miners may just start out with LTC (or even Novacoin?).
Despite grabbing the 12.10 image and saying yes to d/load updates during the installation I still seem to be outstanding some 256 Mb of updates for Ubuntu so I will let those download/install and come back to this later in the day
Kano - If the Unity interface is running X must be running? Perhaps my Solaris background is leading me astray there tho? - Linux experience to date is limited. Ultimately I intend running headless - I don't want or need anything more than ssh to connect.