Yet another newbie takeing the plunge into ripping

[Teleri]

hi I am a few hours away from starting my first dvd rip fed ex tracking page says my pioneer 106s has been placed on a truck to be brought to my house ).

my question is my current computer room has the following 3 computers with bp6 mb celeron 366's o/c to 550-600 mhz all running linux and happly pumping out seti and rc5 work units, 1 be6IIr2 with a p3 750 o/c in the 900's a lap top and a 486 running as a linux router and pummping out a seti units. Is there a decent linux software solution to rip dvds and to convert them to mpegs for (s or x)vcd burning? I could live with ripping on linux box and converting on windows box.

or if I have to take linux off a bp6 system ther would be no diffrence in quality on a cel vs p3 would there? I read on a post that there might but I cant seem to figure out wht the lack of sse and cache ram on the cel should jusat make the proccess slower I would think

[poopyhead]

there's really no quality difference between which CPU u use...however, there will be a significant encoding time difference...CPU power makes all the difference in terms of how long it takes you to encode...

dunno...but i would guess celeron's r on the much slower end in terms of encoding...use the fastest CPU u have to encode with