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Hi Woody, In reviewing this question and answer in our archives, it may address some of your questions. In the answer I recommended Solaris, but, truly, I'm not totally convinced that it's far superior to Linux. I know that with Linux it's important to keep up on the patches, but with that caveat, our Linux sys admin thinks it's up to par with Solaris. Also, these recommendations were for a machine that won't be doing any significant other processing, including decoding. Will you be doing other things on this machine? So, take a look at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/mfs/65/4114?23#mfs. If you have any other questions let me know. I hope this helps. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************