I have ordered a new sound card so I can have better quality sound. The lack of
sound wouldn't be an insurmountable problem (and yes I have checked the
settings), the thing I cannot live with is the instability of the system as
mentioned in another post. I am running Fedora Core 8 on the computer now and
it has been running for 13 hours without a problem. It was running for an
entire day yesterday after which I rebooted it to finish installing some
upgrades.