i my apologies to the mandrake users. i know mandrake will be around in one form or another as long as there is a linux. and that is a long time. mandrake is an excellent Dist. my understanding is that they are still digging themselves out of a hole dug by one of their former leaders. and that they are making progress, it was just a deep hole. > running the "late mandrake" as you put it , just to set the record > straight, Mandrake is in the first stage of the French equivalent of the > U.S Chapter 11 banckruptcy. They have one of the easiest and up to date > installations of the linux distros. My feelings are that, with the number > of installed systems (both desktop and servers), that they will come of > this in a much stronger position. > -- Oh i've slipped the surly bonds of DOS and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings. http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ http://www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux