Tell you what, try mandrake 8.1. I use it every day, it's really a great gui on top of linux. I'll try 8.2 again, I hate that they rush things. Yes, I'm eager for the next distro, but I don't know what % of workable installs they need to release a new distro. I had trouble with 8.1 the first install or two, maybe that's the price of free dlds. But 8.1 is solid as a rock for me right now, god, I wish I could say the same for 2k on my hdd recording machine. And now I have a total upgrade, actually a new release at the library I manage the systems at, to switch all the machines to. A fresh install upgrade that has a suggested min os of 2k, and all the machines are ME, with the exception of the server, which is nt4. MS creates their own market, don't they.

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