Hi All, I am currently using fedora core 3 as my VDR box and it has served me reasonably well. However I have just switched from using Hauppauge Nova-T & Nova-S budget cards with a Hollywood+ card and DXR3 plugin to using a Matrox G550 and softdevice+DirectFB. I want a distro that has all the latest versions of plugins ( especially femon, streamdev, remote, mplayer, dvd, softdevice) and latest development releases of VDR + XDirectFB, DirectFB, DFB++ available as packages that can be easily added /removed. I would also like it to be fast and the base OS to be stable and easy to keep updated. >From what I have looked at so far Gentoo is looking pretty good. Any comments / suggestions ? -- Mr Anthony Hornby RHCE BIT ALIATEC Library Systems & Technology Coordinator Charles Darwin University | CRICOS 300K anthony.hornby@xxxxxxxxxx | office +61 8 89 466011