Thanks for sharing your observations with us. I'm seriously considering installing something else here on one of the machines. It will probably be bsd or Solaris. One thing though: I _love_ Slakware. My only problem with it was they have no damn data base. Nowadays ALL major dists have ways of managing large databases of software. I think to enjoy Slakware you have to not mind doing stuff by hand, so coming to something FROM Slak ( as many of us did ) seems to be much easier than going to use Slak after you've only used RedHat or S.u.S.E. To someone who isn't used to that 'bare bones', I can imagine it's quite tedious. Actually, with the exception of RPM I thought S.u.S.E. was more like Slak than anything else. Was S.u.S.E. originally partially based on Slakware? Does anyone know? -M On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Michael Perry wrote: </snip nice input /> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>