mripley: All the comments you've made here since you switched to linux have come across as bitter and with little useful content. Obviously you've got some kind of chip on your shoulder - I'm not sure why you even bother reading drobe or making comments if "there is nothing on RiscOS [sic] that I [need]".
As for the usefulness of VRPC on Linux I agree with Lym - this open a new door for those people who'd like to have one machine capable of swapping between Linux and RISC OS