Suse 8.0 I can't speak highly enough of apt-get It makes for a big increased productivity. If you run your own linux box in a small business it will keep you working. With the Synaptic front end you can select packages to update very easily. If you do not have unlimited bandwidth you can check the size of downloads as well. I tend to go for the small (size) packages where I can. If you are a system administrator, then having apt-get on the Linux boxes you are administering will make a hell of a difference in updating and maintaining them. Potentially the time savings will be huge. Occassionaly you may require a package that is not available for apt-get. I have got the latest Nvidia driver rpm's installed using the rpm installer. Apt-get seems to have tolerated this ok. (I would caution against this though) There is one trade-off. Apt-get is not bleeding edge. But for work you do not want this. You want stability. You may have to wait for some packages to be available as well - but it is worth the wait. This is a great facility for people new to Linux and Suse. I hope it will go straight into the next distro. Brian Marr