So far so good. The live-boot DVD has so far given be Beryl 1.4 desktop 3D effects where NO other distro could - and with no tweaking of any kind. Remarkable given my near-ancient ATI Radeon 7500 laptop video with only 32megs RAM. True, it's stuck on 1024x768 but I suspect a bit of xorg.conf tweaking will cope with that. So far so good. More later. Jim