Greetings all. The one single question I want answered is... Is my CD #3 bad? Regarding SuSE 7.2 Professional (Which I think is the main point of this topic) - June 26, 2001 YaST2 is slow on my AMD K6-3D/350MHz 512MB ram, it does deal with a lot of stuff so I will give it the benefit of the doubt--it hasn't failed me yet. It installed a bunch of servers I didn't want. Okay, they can be removed I guess. Now that it is up. I really like it a LOT!! I also am running caldera / redhat 5.2,6 / mandrake7,71,72, 8 and this is the best distro I ever seen so far. I haven't had any trouble compiling anything. There are tons of development stuff on now. I grabbed a copy of opera and tested rpm, it seems to be working fine. (why opera isn't in the distro?) I have been trying to get python and all the goodies for development, and it seems to have them! I have had no problems compiling what I want now. (Not like mandrake 7.2/8's god damned lib / rpm conflict / bleeding edge gcc 2.96.48 or what ever the hell it is... The gcc 2.95.3 seems a much more wise decision in SuSE and so far I am GREATFUL for that fact!) I just bought the SuSE 7.2 Professional version 4 days ago from Comp USA. It had to be reinstalled one time -- so far. The problem was durring install certain packages reported an error. (bad CD maybe? I'll have to look into that) This caused most of the window managers to not be installed. I was very upset. I searched for the files to add these manually and I was not able to find them! 2nd try at installing SuSE 7.2 Professional (on June 26th) The same package error came up again. it stops on adamem (Which is one of the emulator packages.) This time I hit CTR-ALT-FX and typed "halt" it rebooted and then Yast reinstalled what seemed like the same thing again, and this time it didn't stop. It installed all the other packages that I had wanted. More importantly all the window managers were now on the menu. Vmware works like a champ! I also decided to setup the "other hardware" on this second setup (A wise decision) The NIC,. Printer, and soundblaster 16. It takes HOURS to feed all the disks in. About Yast and my voodoo2-3000 card video settings in Yast. hmmm. could do some work on the Yast interface eh? It was all messed up. I couldnt see the buttons, and it just didn't display very well (the initial install interface for this was flawless and on the second install I made sure I set the resolution I wanted BEFORE going on which helped.) I find myself searching for files that I normally knew which directory was in caldera/ rh/ mdk this slows me down. Example: /hosts/www /var/www etc. all that is in /usr/local/www ??? heheh yast doesn't like my choice of the hostname, I don't like yast's choice of hostname either ;o) Other than that, it looks to be a fine product. For some reason I can't explain it 'feels' more stable than mandrake 8 did, on the other hand it also 'feels' slightly slower than mandrake 8 or redhat or caldera. More servers installed perhaps? Since this is purely intuition and has no basis in fact you can take it or leave it. I don't lie. I am about the most honest person you will ever meet. other/misc/fyi: I run the whole network behind an old acer 66MHz router/firewall (smoothwall) with a cgi interface to dial up. port forwarding works fine. They say something about having fun, and I must admit, this has been fun! No, it IS fun. *** all normal disclaimers apply ***