> Mandrake rules. I've been using it pretty much exclusively for workstations > for the past 2 years or so, and it's very nice to work with. 8.0 had some > nasty bugs, but 8.1 has fixed them, and adds a ton of useful features. I've always heard that Mandrake was a really newbie-friendly distro. I admit to little experience with it, tho. 1. I have a copy of Mandrake 5.3, signed by Linus Torvalds himself. I installed it once, and it was pretty much Red Hat relabled. 2. I tried Mandrake's firewall sub-distro (Mandrake 7.2-based); and aside from the (fairly good) firewall aspects, didn't see anything that recommended it over RedHat for me. I'm honestly curious tho; what do you see as advantages of Mandrake over RedHat? Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700