Just to give warning, KDE2.2-alpha is more robust than the latest beta. It would appear to be a good idea to stick with alpha and NOT upgrade to the current beta. Problems: 1. Sound is broken. Installing kde 2.2 beta and the concurrent arts and libarts breaks sound in kde. It dorks something up with initializing /dev/dsp. This is true for me upon installing kde2.2 beta on two different machines with different sound systems. 2. Several personal settings do not take. I have found that every time I log in, I have to reactivate antialiasing of fonts in kcontrol and I must reset my mouse acceleration. As for kernel-2.4.6, it doesn't appear to support supermount. I am not offered the option of activating supermount support in xconfig, menu, or menuconfig when compiling it. Also, building and installing the alsa drivers fails to properly setup you modules.conf (I never had this problem before building and installing 2.4.6-1mdk). This may or may not be related to the arts problem and /dev/dsp. praedor
