** Reply to message from Randall R Schulz
Perhaps the fact that I don't have a "hobby" machine (as Anders put it) to experiment with makes me an unusual participant here, but that's my situation. I have one home desktop that I rely on for everyday computing, including my work. I have to be conservative about how I manage and maintain it.
Randall Schulz
Randall, I also do not have a "hobby computer." Mine is my business computer. It **must** stay up and running. I cannot risk catastrophe. In addition, I am a relative Linux newbie who is scared sh*tless by the fear that I'll do something during a download that will crash my computer. And all of the discussions on the suse-list are "geek" to me -- way over my head. That said, Anders has been extremely helpful to me and has never steered me wrong. He suggested RedCarpet to me and was gracious enough to walk this newbie through an install. I tried it; it worked. And I have made numerous updates to my system using RedCarpet. It has not proven problematic and I have not had problems since I started using RedCarpet roughly 2 months ago. Note, however, that Anders urged me to be careful selecting what I downloaded from RedCarpet. And so I have limited myself to getting the KDE and Packman files. Just my opinion that you can trust Anders' opinion on RedCarpet. Go slowly and you should be fine. And once you've got the hang of it I think you'll discover that it's not so bad to take an arrow or two from time to time from Anders! ;o) Hell, you can't be as lame at this as I am, and I've managed to survive! ;o) Gil