Yippeee!!

Wooooooooooo hooooooooooooo!!!
I am a happy man, I finally have Fedora Core 8 running on my machine that too with no risks of loosing Dell's support on the laptop as they support only Windows XP and Vista!
Yeah, VMWare it is baby!
VMWare 6 and Fedora Core 8 with the new version of Ananconda is a cakewalk for even a n00b!!
Well, I definitely count myself in that category and so it is good news for y'all!!
If you have a Dell or any other brand's laptop running some version of Windows with your laptop's manufacturer supporting only Windows and you're craving to lay your hands on a Linux baby, get VMWare!!!
I did have a hard time finding a Linux installation DVD as the SuSe disk I was supposed to get came out to be corrupt and Ubuntu ships only their shitty Live CD now.
That was one hell of a disappointment.
I got this Fedora Core 8 DVD free with the December issue of Linux for You magazine!
I dont normally subscribe to it but the moment I saw it was offering what I wanted so badly, gotcha!!

And here's a screenshot to make the likes of Subhobroto Sinha further jealous! ;)

I am sure you recognize the blue desktop!
Dont you?

MingW working with Windows Vista Home Premium!

I know that is not news! The problem was solved ages ago but I am writing about it because I solved it day before yesterday and finally could have some C/C++ code working on my laptop.

For those of you who still face problems with running gcc (using MingW) on Windows Vista and see the error "Could not exec cc1plus" try out the following.
If you're using an IDE (I use Code::Blocks) then go to your Compiler settings (Settings>Compiler Settings>Programs for Code::Blocks v1.0, rc2) and just add an additional path to the directory that contains the cc1plus.exe file. In my case it is located in "C:\MinGW\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5"
and would be located in a similar location on your computer assuming you've installed MingW in the root folder of your C drive and have installed gcc version 3.4.5.
Once you've added this path to your Compiler paths you should be ready to run!

In case you dont use any IDE and are more of a "Command Line" geek then just add the path to the aforesaid file in your "Path" environment variable. You could do that by pasting the following line at Command Prompt, again assuming that you have installed gcc version 3.4.5 and in the root folder of your C drive (C drive).

"PATH path %path%;c:\mingw\;c:\mingw\bin;c:\mingw\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\"

Happy Coding!