Hi James, I have a dual boot with my included oem version of xp sp2+, works great only load xp first and then defrag and compress a couple of times, using the windows defrag tool. Then pop in a iso and as long as your system is configed to boot from cd "Dada" SuSE loaded and detected all my hardware in about 10 mins, I then had to track down a driver for my cxt / rockwell winmodem. SuSE was my chiose, simply becuase I wanted to load on a laptop and SuSE seemed to have the most , strait out of the box for what I wanted. For chiose on a desktop I would use gentoo or debian, but they can be a bit of a struggle for a first timer. SuSE is cool but the help isn't all it's cracked up to be, English isn't my first language and by the sounds of it it wasn't the first for the help operator I used. And while it may not be a draw back for some, I picked a boxed copy so I could get help. If you know what your doing get a clone off the net for 2 to 3 squid, remember a clone is still legal, unlike some other os's.
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