Wine might be free, but after I installed Crossover World of Warcraft plays like a champ with Ubuntu 9.04. So it is still all Linux without dual boot, and I also run IE 8 and MS Office 2003 Pro. Brian On Sep 9, 2009 6:36 PM, "Jim March" <1.jim.march@gmail.com> wrote: It's VERY easy to give Ubuntu a "Pulsectomy". You can even graft in OSS4 if you want...not really necessary though, Alsa works fine on it's own. Right now I'm living with the Pulse weirdness in Karmic just to see if they manage to wrangle it into something useful. So far...it's like watching a train wreck and the comedic value is dropping daily...nay, hourly. Jim --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.p...