My main machine is a Dual Xeon 500Mhz Dell. It's still chugging along on v9.2. Quite frankly, other than maybe installing the newer kernel to see if it solves some of my sound problems(SMP is weird. I have IRQs in the 180s), I'm pretty happy with it and don't see much need to upgrade. Mencoder is much fast when recompiled from source. At least 50%.from what I have seen. I'm still not that impressed with the P4s. I'm only getting 13fps xvid 1st pass on this 2.4Celeron Mobile and I get about 10 1st pass on my Xeon(mencoder does not support SMP). My first was v5.3. I THINK I bought just about every version up to 8.1. Never had a high speed connection till then. 5 CDs d/ls SLOW on dial up. Feature bloat is a big gripe of mine. It is irritating to be REQUIRED to install files to support ISDN, bluetooth, etc, when I have never had this hardware and probably never will. I would like to see YaST be able to scan the hardware and then offer to install support for devices that you may have that aren't currently plugged in. It's a waste of HD and memory to have these unneccessary files forced on us. I don't even install OpenOffice. KOffice does just fine for me. -----Original Message----- From: Peter Czanik <pczanik@fang.fa.gau.hu> Just like me, my earlier experiences were very negative. But 10.0 -> 10.1 went without any trouble on my Pegasos PPC. First of all, you don't need to compile, packman has it available. Anyway it's strange, I recompiled the packman MPlayer rpm on PPC, and did not have any trouble. But I must admit, that their source rpm includes a good number of gcc4 related patches. My Pegasos has just 256MB, and the upgrade went without any trouble. The only thing I did is that I used the 'start_shell' boot parameter, and activated swap before starting up YaST. About 150M of swap was used. S.u.S.E 4.2 on 486 with 16MB of RAM and half of the HDD was dedicated to Linux. That was 150MB, with X, games and Netscape, and plenty of free space :-) Bye, ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com