Evening, yes, Linux and Orca will run happily on a 64 bit system. Firefox had a problem some time ago when it was packaged for Fedora 8 I think it was but it's running great now. You can dule boot a 64 bit operating system and a 32 bit one. You can run a 32 bit operating system within a virtual machine when the host is 64 bit however not the other way around. But, I'm sorry to keep going on about this, but, more people should be giving out to freedom scientific and gw micro. we deserve and need the acces to 64 bit operating systems. Darragh www.digitaldarragh.com linux recordings at www.digitaldarragh.com/linuxat.asp __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind