Having purchased a new PC with Vista (not by choice, but there was no option), I am eager to free up all that memory. My first plan was to replace with a new "upgrade" of XP, but XP doesn't recognize my harddrive. I have hard- and software that run great on XP, and I would love to set up a dual-boot, so... 1) Recommendations for installing XP? I know it can be done, but everyone has a different opinion, and it'll be a one-way ticket. Yes, this version of XP will also install without another version of Windows on the drive (in theory). 2) I've tried about 10 different distros but I would appreciate any suggestions for one which is non-corporate (Suse, Red Hat, etc.), Gnome- friendly, good for recognizing hardware, and easy for a newb to update. I have Debian on my other laptop and find it a bit too complicated at this point. I assume that I will also need to find codecs for my system, and any info here would be great. My (future Linux-only) laptop is a Dell Vostro 1510, in case anyone has dealt with that particular machine. Thanks much, Mark
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