Just installed 7.3 and thought I would share my thoughts. SuSE in my opinion continues to be the "Mercedes Benz of Linux" as I saw them referred to in an article once. Each version is more polished and 7.3 seems to be no exception. However when it comes to ease of installation, I feel SuSE has taken a step back. Having seen other listings lately about trouble with the installation suggests I am not alone. My install went as normal until the first reboot when the system locked up. Resuming the install, the system again locked up when came time to configure X. I then postponed configuring X until I had the install complete. The system crashed again at the end of the install. Attempting to use SaX2 to configure X afterwards crashed the system repeatedly. Replaced the Voodoo5 5500 with an ATI RADEON with the same result...repeated crashes. I double-checked the box to make sure it didn't say Windows. I then noticed a LINUX SAFE SETTING option in lilo and tried that. Sucess! This boot option apparently disables DMA and APM support, which was causing problems with my computer's hardware. The Voodoo5 card configured easily with 3D support. The ATI RADEON however wouldn't configure if I tried to enable 3D support. 1 out of 2 ain't bad and I consider this an improvement remembering all the hoops I had to jump through to get 3D acceleration to work in earlier versions. The only other bug I have noticed so far is the failure of the computer to turn off once run-level 0 is reached and will chalk this one up to bugs in the 2.4.10 kernel. Overall my first impressions are very positive except for the problems encountered during installation. Having done numerous installs of 7.1 and 7.2 in the past with little difficulty, I would consider the difficulties with installing 7.3 a significant problem. If SuSE really wants to attack the desktop market as their slogan "Linux for the Whole Family" seems to suggest, the ease of installation should be the highest priority. The word of many of those who have tried Linux in the past and went back to Windows was "It was too hard to install." PCHintz