Jonathan, Well, as far as what happened to me...everything just seemed to freeze up when doing simple tasks such as reading my mail in a terminal window. I didn't give it much of a chance...I am not into tweaking as much as I use to be...so I just switched to the 2.2.x kernel and I plan to mess with 2.4 when it reaches the 2.4.5 or so version. Regards, * Jonathan Drews (j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net) [010217 19:33]: => => can you breifly describe what those issues might be? Does 2.4 have a tough =>time coping with hdparm and DMA? I am primarily interested in SuSE for use as =>a desktop OS. Do the issues affect this kind of use? => -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- SuSE Linux 7.1 : Mutt 1.3.12i : KDE 2.1 Beta2 : Peace of Mind ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.