This is my first time participating in testing a new Linux release, so any advice is welcome. I have Fedora Core 4 RC 2 installed; despite warnings, I am using it as my everyday machine now--it's the only way I can do meaningful testing, by doing meaningful (to me) work. Part of that work is web browsing. Java 1.5 plugin works, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 plugin works, but the Flash plugin is not working (perhaps this is, after all, a small mercy ;) ). I get no error messages. I've tried installing from within Firefox ("Install Missing Plugins"), as well as from the Flash site itself. No joy. On the upside, music ripping and encoding works, and very well. Cheers, Mark Taber State of California Department of Finance 916.323.3104 x2945