I come from a UnixWare background. Running SuSE 7.3Pro with 8.0 now ordered for April delivery. Would like to use Sendmail 8.12.2 and Apache/mod_ssl 1.3.24/2.8.8 but there are so many tie-ins via rpm with Gnome and KDE and whatever that I was wondering if it is possible to cleanly remove the SuSE distributions and replace them with compiles from the source organizations? I gather I'd lose some functionality. Has anyone done this in the past? I even thought of using the rpm -U to update instead of recompiling, but SuSE rpms are not found where others commonly are - if they are available at all. FWIW, I am really rather impressed with the SuSE distribution. Overkill maybe, but then I don't come from a Windows environment and never did!!! Any insight would be appreciated. George -- George Walsh, Managing Director, CruiseRoutes Division, DSC Directional Services Corp Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/