On Friday 27 February 2004 18:44, glyn wrote: I installed Mandrake 9.2 on one that I gave my brother for xmas, an Athlon 2400+ with 512MB of RAM, and it worked perfectly. Possibly the smoothest installation I've ever done, though that's partly because it was limited-use (basically just a custom menu in Gambas that let them run 14 different Linux games.) It was running alsa, I think, but I never tried recording or anything like that. And it was super, super quiet though I do think it still had a fan. I would want to use an outboard DAC or USB/firewire sound module, but I fully intend to make my next desktop one of those things and to do audio work on it. Rob

hi, As a fellow muller, I've looked into the Shuttle xpc Zen. It has an external powersupply, a la the apple cube, and is extremely quiet according to the people of www.silentpcreview.com. Right now it only comes in a pentium 4 flavor, but they may release an AMD version. It's biggest flaw is the lack of an AGP slot (it has builtin nvidia, and 2 pci slots, I believe). That wouldn't be any problem if you don't run any really graphics intensive games. -Rich glyn wrote: