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Since this is something that comes up often, there was a recent article floating around the internet that breaks down one person's viewpoint of distributions for people to look at for different purposes, that may be useful reading for any newcomers looking at Linux.

For those of us that have been around a while, if you disagree or have other suggestions(eLive, etc.) post up a post with who you think it fits for, why you think this, and what makes it different from the othe ...

Hi everyone !

Dell laptops come with a second power up button that start a light Windows version aimed for multimedia viewing (MediaDirect). I've always wanted to be able to choose which OS to boot when the MediaDirect button is used.

There's already solutions to this, but they don't allow us to boot from a logical partition, and they aren't very "user friendly".

So I decided to tweak my favorite graphical bootloader to add the possibility to assign a different OS to each powerup button. I've ...

Hello

Firstly, the model is F7KR-7S016
with specs :

AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology Processor TL-58 1.9GHz ,1M L2 Cache;
ChipsetAMD M690G+SB600;
2GB DDR2 667 MHz SDRAM,
Video Graphics & Memory ATI Mobility™ Radeon®HD 2400;
250GB,5400rpm ;
Ricoh Card Reader8 in 1;
Video Camera1.3 Mega Pixel web camera

I will try to write this in the order I encountered them after the Windows XP SP3 install.

1. Update to Windows .NET Framework.
http://www.microsoft.com ...

After getting my 5950, I tried to locate a 19" laptop cooler but, they simply don't make them. What's a man with a $3k+ laptop to do...make his own, of course.

But, since I spent most of my waking hours at work, and they won't let me bring in any power tools I decided to make one out of items that I could get around the office.

First, I needed to find a suitable item to place under my laptop. At first, I thought about just using 4 small post-it note paks, but they didn't really get th ...