Ubuntu Live CD. Nice. Very nice.
My laptop has developed a bung hard drive. After a couple of days of rest, it managed to boot again, but I don't trust it, and have (after much angst) managed to convince Dell to send me a new hard drive.
I was initially going to try and borrow a 2.5" SATA USB hard drive enclosure from somewhere to attempt to rescue the data off the disk, but I thought to myself, why bother, when I can just boot off a live CD and skip mucking around?
So here I am, writing this post SSHed from the 5.10 live CD, and it Just Workstm. I'm quite impressed. It dealt with the SATA hard drive. It dealt with the SATA CD-ROM. It dealt with the wireless (albeit it associated with the wrong access point), and it dealt with the video. It took a little while to boot, but not as long as the SuSE live CD I once experimented with. Overall, very slick. Nice job guys. Now if I can just rescue my data...