Bok and all,
When I found 6.2.15 was x86_64 mode, I installed it from Berkeley. It has since been released as packaged boinc-client and boinc-manager... and BOY are they stable. There wasn't a blink at all.
As for displays + audio + drives, etc... it all auto configured and I just 'tweaked' a few settings to my preferences, but the default install was 100% usable! I have dual 21's for displays (DVI-A) and have had FF since day 1.
My XP sits idle... this is a Linux house with 2K in VirtualBox and THAT is how i stole Eon from Lauren that one day.... a meer 17 Ghz of cpu power on Linux.
Let's do the Linux switch.... can we ? The government is!!!
C.