>And tell them you want Linux. If they refuse to give you Linux, tell them you >don't want an OS at all and then you can put Linux on it. No use paying for >W!nd0w$ if you don't want it. Yeah, that is what I did and they were only too happy to give me a blank hard disk and to make sure that the serial ports were enabled and that I could boot from CD so I just took it home and plugged it in and did the install and I have had no trouble at all with it ever since.