On Friday 17 January 2003 01:54 pm, a tiny voice in your head compelled you to type: > A friend of mine who takes care of very large > Linux/UNIX networks for a living recommended, > when I asked him which distro to learn on, > that I buy a copy of Mandrake. > > I've been very very happy. It's very > easy to use, and accessible. Just MHO but now is not a great time to pin the tail on Mandrake or is the report of chapter 11 just a rumor? If you must pin the development to one flavor, at least make sure they're solvent, or at least have a future. OK so no Linux companies are exactly making gobs of cash but one would expect RH to stay around longer than Mandrake SUSE or United Linux. We might even consider building the project on Gentoo. I've been running it for a couple of weeks now and the users groups are peopled by some pretty brilliant people who probably would jump on board -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free