I’ve made the change from Fedora 8 (which was very disappointing for the reasons I’ve expounded in the previous post) to Ubuntu, specifically Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon“. I must say that the installation was painless and very quick - the whole thing only took 30 minutes - though the upgrades took somewhat longer. I’m delighted to report that everything is working as it should including the scanner, sound, and Internet. I’ve even managed to get Komodo Edit 4.3 up and running without too much aggravation (this proved impossible under F8) though it crashed initially. I’ve decided that a memory upgrade from 512Mb to 2GB is in order, and that should make the system super fast and efficient.