Folks, For the past week, I have been playing around with SuSE 8.0, which I installed dual-boot with my Mandrake 8.2. I have to say, I am mightily impressed. I tried SuSE 7.3 but could never really get it configured the way I wanted to, but truth be told, I probably didn't put as much time into it as I should have. Anyway, I've been using Mandrake 8.2 and was pretty happy with it, once I installed KDE 3.0. I really liked Mandrake's Software Manager (urpmi) which did a great job of installing updated rpm's and checking and installing dependencies as needed. However, the performance was not up to snuff IMHO, and it had a funny way of crashing programs here and there. So, I gave SuSE 8.0 a whirl. The installation was super-easy (as was Mandrake's but just not as pretty) and quick. It detected and properly configured every piece of hardware I have. For once, I didn't have to spend time post-installation configuring java, mozilla plugins, etc. etc. After fixing a symlink to the nvidia drivers (thanks to a tip from this list!) that YaST nicely installed, everything was a go. My home-built computer's performance also seems to have taken a major shot in the arm, but perhaps that is partly because of SuSE using reiserfs and (by my choice) Mandrake using ext3. I did compare hdparm outputs, however, and SuSE's was much better than Mandrake's. Whatever it is, SuSE seems faster and much more stable. I will have to get used to some of the little things that are always different between competing distributions, and I would like to see the YaST program improved as has been mentioned on this list many times. Overall, though, I think SuSE has a real winner on its hands and you may have another convert. Best regards, Charles __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com