I heard about these speakers in a promotion from Mandriva as I recall but the offer was only good in Europe. Mandriva was quite estatic about how good these speakers were and sounded and were Linux supported. While I am not curently running Mandriva anywhere, I did test them with both Fedora 12 and LinuxMint 8 (Ubuntu 9.10) and found that they are fully supported as an audio output USB device and sound great. The only issue I had was I couldn't quite get the volume up to Theater levels from DVD's but can't to that either with the internal speakers, always a little wimpy. But playing CD's in LinuxMint 8 was awesome! Rock the house. Now I have always considered using a computer to play games or play CD's or DVD's was a waste of a perfectly good computer since there are other ways and devices specifically designed for those purposes and can do it better, if you want great sounding speakers, the LaCie Sound(squared) Speakers are a great choice but I will warn you that you need to prepare to give up some deskspace for them as they are 8" in diameter (multiply that by 3.14 for the circumference) and about 5" deep, and they are not cheap. MSRP is $99 but I got mine from Adorama (http://www.adorama.com/searchsite/default.aspx?searchinfo=LaCie Sound2) for 79.50 plus shipping. There is a part of old school in me that says you should use a conventional audio/speaker system for best results and that is no exception here that audio levels in the computer (pick your OS) are suboptimal and that an external system with a real power amplifier with sufficient volume and tone controls is needed for that Theater experience. My little portable Altec-Lansing BX2 speakers do a better job of filling the room playing DVD's from my computer but do not have nearly the base response provided by these LaCie 8" coaxial speakers with their build in 30watt amplifier. You can find out more about these speakers at: http://www.everythingusb.com/lacie-sound-2-usb-speakers-by-neil-poulton-...