Not a Flame, I still use SuSE on several machines and I probably will for a long time, and it is only because I like it, I bother to write this message. It have been an interesting time installing and configuring suse linuxPPC. There have been more problems than I expected. I have been using several Linux versions (X86) over several years, so I feel quite confident in that environment, but PPC have several differences (and I don't want to mess it up) or it could be that I am just making the difference bigger, this is my first Mac notebook so I am a little fresh. 1 after installing anything with Yast I loose my eth0 depmod does not change anything ldconfig does not fix it insmod -f complains about not finding the directory Yast2 is complaining about Error 255 modprobe tells me that I "can't locate module bmac.o The last times it have fixed itself when I run Yast2, but this time Error 255 2 The Monitor problem The standard Apple Hardware is quite standard they don¹t change video cards that often (or any other hardware) I can see that there is problems in the X86 world, but on Mac? I know that the information Apple is willing to share is a joke, but any distribution should be able to make some standard scripts (choose your model) 3 Support I did send an email to SuSE regarding the installation problems I have on my G4. The answer did not help me, and I waited several days. According to another "unnamed" mailing list, my specific problem was quite common for G4 and there was a "fix". I have to admit that I have not tried it so this could be premature. But just having knowledge about the fact that a problem exists, and not informing the customer is not right. If SuSE would have told me (I did not find it on the site) that there is a problem with the video card in G4 could have saved hours in searching for the problem, I could have started at once, in the right direction. 4 Support #2 This mailing list, the number of messages is not very high, but the response is phenomenal, the best I have ever seen. And the help is the same. I am in awe to the people at SuSE that runs it. It reminds me of the early news groups. One of my greatest concerns is that Linux have a reputation for being very stable. PPC is stable but some of the major software is not, (it seems like sax2 ) is unable to save the info to XF86Config, eth0 is dropping out, it is probably an easy fix for it (I have not looked at the web site yet) but I would imagine that this would be somewhat intimidating for a Mac user (no offence) so a section in the manual describing how to edit the XF86Conf with emacs would have been great. It would also have been great to have a page about what to do after upgrading, how to get the modules to load... I know this is just a rant, but hopefully someone is at least reading it and considering some of my ideas. Best regards Even