On Sunday 22 July 2001 07:54, you wrote: Hello Group, I thought to contribute to this debate but from another angle SuSE 7.2 vs Mandrake 8: I `ve reinstalled SuSE7.2 for the third time in 48 hours and I still can`t get the X working correctly,so I`m bitting the bullet and downloading latest Xfree 4.1.0 which worked fine on my box when it was powered by SuSE 6.4. Who was that "unwise" person deciding to keep two different versions of Xfree in the 7.2 distribution? Mandrake 8 on other hand installed flawless in 45 minutes and worked like dream even ide-scsi emulation was automatically selected and correctly configured,SuSE take note!From a desktop point of view for me , if I was a windoze user , Mandrake is the winner by the mile.The only downside is the lack of packages selections on offer but this should not be a case of offer more of less polished product or quantity over quality.However SuSE rules,it`s just pitty that it will take me an year to perfect the box but by that time there will be another version and new bugs to squash,so I suppose back to basics again,which one is better? Have a lot of fun Alan