Common Lisp hacking with ABCL

I'm riding on a Linux Eee PC 901. For now I haven't installed a different distribution than the customized Xandros that comes with it... The freaking thing isn't booting from a FAT32 USB that I have...

So, and because the main flash drive is almost full, I don't have GCC to build a more mature Lisp. I'm therefore using Armed Bear Common Lisp (ABCL) for some entertainment hacking like solving Programming Praxis problems and reading Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp for a second time. ABCL has some quirkcs, like when I tried to build an SVN ccheckout with Sun's JDK 1.6, it had some compilation errors. Nothing serious, and, after some minutes, I was at the REPL in Emacs. For now I tested it with a basic subset of imperative and functional Lisp and it stood well. I wonder if someday I try to setup a Lisp REPL for ArgoUML with ABCL (check issue 3082: evaluating GEF support for template notation spike)...