I don't know how long the USPS has been offering "click-n-ship" via java, but they do - and it works in Linux - so I no longer have any need to have windows (which I was using for PayPal shipping labels) So I did an http install of rawhide on my IBM Thinkpad 600. This is a 700 MHz PIII with 256 MB of ram (unfortunately in two 128 chips - so to max it out, I need to buy two new chips :( ) boot.iso, graphical install using my local rawhide mirror, it went flawlessly. The fonts looked a little weird, but I actually expected that. The "time remaining" is whacked, imho it should be removed - it never has been accurate on any machine I have ever installed on. I was impressed - since it was docked, my USB keyboard and mouse (Apple Pro keyboard - best USB keyboard I've ever owned) were completely usable during the install, they weren't for the initial boot prompt, but that's expected. A certain other operating system does not make them available until after I have logged in once and it detects the new hardware (and then it works for login). First boot went flawlessly, this seems to have been the least troublesome test install I have done so far. -=- Post install - it didn't know what my monitor was. So 800x600 is the best I could get. A thinkpad 600 isn't exactly bleeding edge hardware. I was able to reconfigure it manually choosing generic lcd 1024x, and that seems to work. I could not find a way to shut down the box w/o opening a terminal window. There is no shutdown option from menu or gdm. virtual consoles are completely broken - I believe I've seen that reported already though. I will check to see if there is a bug open for my chipset (I think there is). Playing test sound failed, but that I'm filing under the category of I personally don't really give a damn.