My first major foray into Gnu/Linux was with the Gentoo flavor. Some of my friends used Debian, but the whole idea of Gentoo just appealed more to me.
Once I knew a lot more of what was going on under the hood, I was attracted to Ubuntu for its focus on the desktop, while still running [...]

Here it is.
Not that impressive and from reading the reviews, it might be a cheap plastic piece of crap. I thought that mine was. I couldn’t get it to work under Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 or OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I don’t have any personal windows machines any more that aren’t virtual.
Anyway, I thought the [...]

After running Ubuntu Karmic Koala for about a month on the my Dell D420, I have decided to give OS X a try.
I started here.
Ended up here.
10.5 was a bust.
10.6 works great!
The process I used was:
1. Get 10.6 disc or disc image.
2. Make an external hard drive version of it.
3. Boot from the D620SLV1 [...]