Quote - I had Redhat running once on a partition.  I don't mind a little tweaking as long as I'm allowed to do it.  I have to fight vista every step of the way to get it to allow me to do anything at all.  If I want to do something let me do it, if I crash my system its my fault! Christ! Vista is an infuriating OS.

Thanks for the link I will try it out. I do really want to switch to linux eventually because it is so much more secure and maleable. Soon,  I have to finish these models I'm working on and then I can sit down and learn it.  I was thinking I could run linux with a virtual windows for the apps that wont run in linux.

Not a bad solution, only problem I ran into is the hardware I have at home is somewhat limited, and a virtual machine of any sort doesn't really give you the full "oomph" of the hardware - so most of the apps I would want to run under windows being rather high-end and memory intensive this wasn't really a great solution for me personally.

At the moment I run a dual boot system - I use Ubuntu for coding and general purpose work, and windows for the 3d apps that require it (like Poser).  I've messed around a bit with Poser under Wine but wasn't really overjoyed with the results, yes, it will run, but it had some issues with video refresh that while livable got to be a bit annoying. 

So for now I'll run a dual boot till I can get FAST far enough along that I can ditch Poser and Windows altogether :)

-Never fear, RenderDog is near!  Oh wait, is that a chew toy?  Yup. ok, nevermind.. go back to fearing...