actually evil, opensuse 11 is working really well on my laptop which is about 4 years old, 1.8 gig processor with 1.5 gigs ram, not a speed demon, but not terribly shabby. i have a dual boot windows server 2003/suse right now, as im just now beginning with linux. if i could get just a few things running on linux i could use windows less and less, i sure miss babylon translator on Linux, for instance. virtual box, is that a vm program? ive used vmware, but thats like a whole other operating system. youre saying virtual box looks as though the program is running in linux? im trying to understand this :)