I was thinking of getting another machine to just run linux on. I was thinking to go either valinux or dell. I don't really know if there's much else to choose from. I could just get another custom built with windows Millenium on it, do the famous format operation and put whatever linux distro I may choose, probably redhat or something (a distro I've not tried out yet) on it. The problem I see is the computer place I got this desktop from doesn't seem to sell open architect motherboards in systems now. They're more integrated, and have less slots now, and usb instead of serial ports is bad news. They basically had this open architect board because the on board sound on that other one started giving noise I didn't want, and switching to sblive wouldn't work any other way. If there's no easy way to get speakup to load on plugging the synthesizer in without rebooting, or for that matter replacing the kernel of one of these already set up systems, I could just get ethernet going and use telnet or ssh to it to do whatever I need from my windows/linux dual boot system.
