Hi Anahata More to that, Mandrake has a kernel that has a lot of patches and extras added. This means that if you want to add a patch like low latency or preempt, you have to grab another kernel RPM, as the patches don't apply cleanly to the Mandrake kernel source. This is especially annoying for those stuck on dial-up, like myself. Regards Luke At 08:06 PM 1/04/2003, Anahata wrote: >You're still left with a bunch of impenetrable configuration files and >scripts, which I don't think you get with Slackware, nor so much with >Debian.