(getting ready to take cover) I've been a hardcore Gentoo user for the last few months. A number of my friends run Debian. So I am essentially spoiled by the apt and emerge installs that does everything for you. However, I work in Systems for the CS dept and we've used Redhat for a long time. I just got fed up with the package installs and the stupid RHN surveys and the updating of 300 some linux machines individually that eventually embarked on an online search for the golden "rpm emerge". :) As a user? I'm just a regular student lucky enough to have found this relic for an otherwise difficult distro... (runs away from angry Redhat fans) Cheers, Theresa P.S. You should've seen the face of my coworkers when they updated their Redhat machines with yum for the first time... ********************** Theresa Chen Research Assistant Systems Group, Computer Science Department Florida State University Carothers 120 Phone: (850) 644-4019 Phone: (850) 644-0516 Email: therchen@xxxxxxxxxx **********************