>Can we start with mobo's? Any recommendations, >horror stories, successes are most welcome. > >Stories? recommendations? I built my own from scratch. I would actually recommend it as opposed to prebuilt boxes because you can pick and choose hardware that will have good linux support. I bought a VIA chipset mobo, AMD Athlon-XP, and an RME audio card. Gentoo distro. No horror stories. (Well, I found I had a bad memory stick when I was building it, but otherwise no complaints) -Reuben