With Ubuntu I think there is a program called gnomebaker that burns CD's and DVD's. I like Ubuntu, or for that matter anything Debian based. I installed Mandrake before, meh....it was just ok. SuSe i have not tried because its not free( altough they may have a open source distro now ). Ahhh, I tried to install Gentoo once, I never got to a desktop because the installation was so confusing, that might be because I did a net-install though. I booted the cd and it didnt even give me a clue what to do, just left you in a console or terminal. I had to go and look up what I was suppose to enter( very lame ). So I would not recommend it. Stick with Ubuntu 64 bit.