You can. Just install it as you would any other software..go into the gnome series and tag the packages.. You can use KDM to switch between them. You have to log out of X to do this..or if someone knows of another way that would nice to know. I never bothered with it. =>I thought that 7.1 would allow you to choose gnome vs kde2 ? => =>Whats involved in intalling and trying out gnome ? => =>Can you switch between gnome , kde2 and the other installed window managers -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.