installing pier on ubuntu was easy (so far ;-) )

Howdy I just started looking at squeak and all the great toys it can include. I asked about squeak wiki's on the beginners list and Keith suggested I look at the preloaded image on www.squeak.org and join this list. I did Thanks! :-) I am interested in squeak for education. We are setting up some classes for kids (of all ages ;-) ) to learn programming. I had included an intro to squeak in a class a few years ago and am glad I can come back to look more. I am looking into a wiki as one way the kids can collaborate. I ran swiki and was pleased with the little I did with it. I am interested in the differences between pier and swiki. I plan on working with pier for at least the next little bit. My adventures with pier so far are: I installed on XP and poked a bit to see it up and running. I then installed squeak on a ubuntu 6.06 linux box from www.squeak.org. I realized I had not looked to see if squeak was available from the ubuntu repositories and checked and :-) there it was. I uninstalled the first copy and then installed from the repositories. I then ran with the preloaded pier image and was up in way less that 5 minutes (if you don't count the test on XP and the first load of squeak) !!! I added a page to the wiki and can see and edit from various computers on our network. I will play more if I have more time this weekend but it is looking good! Gary