After much disassembly, cleaning, and reassembly, I had a functioning computer. The included hard drive was dead, so I swapped in another that I'd pre-installed Ubuntu to. That worked fine, but I thought that so long as I had a "test computer" at my disposal I'd use the opportunity to try out a few untried distros I had sitting around: OpenSUSE 10.3, Mepis 7.0 and Mandriva 2008.
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