> > That's hardly fair! What about trying a non-rpm *cough* > http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ *cough* distro on it? Fine with me, if I can get hold of it for long enough.... :-) Have you seen PCLinuxOS? v0.7 supports apt-get & RPM on a Mandrake base. For a pre-release distro it seems very polished.... Brent