from an FC1 versus SuSE 9 comparison article at: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/22/0914204 "... To Red Hat's credit, they have tweaked Fedora so that up2date uses yum, a tool written by the Yellowdog Linux team, to install patches from community repositories instead." man, dontcha just hate it when you get dissed like that? rday