Being a distro whore stretching back to RedHat 5.1, and having recently struggled during the RPM09 challenge considerably more with my apps than I felt I should have, I installed ArtistX yesterday. This is a phenomenally complete (9.8GB huge/bloated some will say - but what a playground of applications for graphics, audio, and video work along with all the productivity packages a studio, household or business might need) multimedia distro based upon Debian a la Intrepid 8.10 and Ubuntu Studio, but unlike that latter distro, everything I've tried in ArtistX has worked faultlessly, and at an exceptionally high level of performance. Gnome 2.24, KDE 4.2, kernel 2.6.27 and a boatload of cutting-edge software. http://www.artistx.org/site2/ Frank