Personal experience with three machines. 1. Compaq laptop 1720US (used as my crash and burn system when not traveling). On this machine I performed a fresh install using the DVD. The only major problem was the acpi=off glitch. Other then that install went flawless. 2. Gateway E series (fairly new, work desktop machine, Nvidia graphics). This machine received an upgrade using the CD's. After the first cd was through and the machine rebooted yast reverted to the text mode version. Installed all of the remaining packages without a problem. Upon restart NO KDE login, X would not start. Back to yast to upgrade packages and installed the Nvidia updates. Rebooted the machine and viola KDE login. Did not even touch the XF86config file at all from the previous installation (8.0 PRO). The only major problem observed is that apache will not start at boot even though it IS setup to start in either run level 3 and 5. SuSE needs to address this problem (observed from numerous others comments on this list with the same issue) or explain the difference in 8.2. I suspect that it might have something to do with incomplete chroot setup in startup file. 3. Home system, self built with ASUS P2BDS MB using two P3-750's. This is my main system at home, and performed a upgrade as well on this one. Same problem as machine #2 regarding apache. Other than that no major issues to speak of. The only issue I have that is clearly NOT SuSE's fault is the version of galeon that shipped with 8.2. Maybe I did somethig wrong in the upgrade process but the look and functionality of the newer version sucks. Being a KDE fan maybe I need to install more of the gnome packages to take care of some of the graphical benefits and functionality of gnome programs. Just my $.02 -- Ken Schneider linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998