Hi

i feel like the sole defender of redhat these days but 7.3 works like a dream for me turning of "Nautilus" on my laptop got me even more speed

pd with ALSA, midiin, GEM all work i tend towards GEM G4 now because it seems more closely related to the work i want to be doing

But redhat 9.0 might be rubbsh but 7.3 is not. It really just matters what you want to do. Anything after 7.3 seems to try to be the M$ of linux but i have always felt that if you get a good linu/unix book that works for what you need one must avoid the lure of teh upgrade for a while.

cheers

Patrick Pagano, B.S.,M.F.A Candidate Research And Development Assistant Digital Worlds Institute University Of Florida (352) 294-2070