> purely fyi, and not wishing to start any kind of > rancourous discussion - honest - I'd just like to point > out that a precompiled version Gentoo is coming out later > in the week.
You must be a mind reader! I'm seriously considering gentoo on the laptop (if I can preserve the way I've set up she-who-must-be-obeyed's kde desktop). BTW - the FLA in the subject line stands for "Yet Another Distro Switch" I the last six months I've gone SuSE 7.0 -> Suse 8.? -> Woody (attempted install) -> Mdk 9.1 all on a production box! (I don't have a test box). Yuri
