Actually, I plan on installing a Linux box just to run on its own, but this one is operational, and I'm afraid to mess with it for fear of breaking something that is working. f y i, i r l p is internet radio linking project and is used by ham radio people to tie repeater systems and so forth together via the internet. All of the supporting software is done in Linux. Some of it, as I understand, is specialized code. Actually, I picked up a cheap computer at Fries last week end. It has some offbrand of a gui Linux on it I've never heard of, so plan on blowing all that away and installing fedora or possibly slackware. I looked around slackware's page and didn't really see anything about speech. Anyhow, that is where I am at the moment. 73s Butch Bussen wa0vjr