I would urge you to read up on RedHat 7.0 before installing it. They have included some code that the developers consider mid beta. Their reasoning is that it will become mainstream, it is stable now, and getting it out will find the rest of the problems. Deciding that because my friends didn't have problems I won't either is not a great idea. It is best to look into the problem as then you often find not only a true rate of incidence, but what causes those problems. One that my reading has noted is that bianaries compiled on/for RedHat 7 will often not work on other machines because of the libraries that were added which are considered beta code. I wouldn't let the fact it is beta make me run though. Consider speakup itself is still in bbeta stages. Some software is never released from beta. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net