> So, I was thinking about switching instead to Mandrake 7.2. Any > recommendations pro or con? DONT DO IT! Mandrake has a pretty spiff install and such, but all their development packages are broken, broken, broken. Soon as you try compiling any extra software, you're out of luck. Half the packages are missing the libraries they should have, and at least with 7.1 and 7.0 they downright forgot the C++ header files, meaning you couldn't compile C++ code at all. I had to copy them over from a redhat system. Have they even fixed this in 7.2?