> I don't mind a learning curve, but unnecessary complexity should be > avoided. After downloading Ximian Gnome there were missing dependencies > and altered start scripts all over the directory map. This was supposed > to be an automatic install. yeah, ximian's installer is less than perfect. the one time I used it, I went for the 'minimal install', then re-ran it to get the fuller versions, without breaking too many dependencies. > It took me most of a day to find and repair the problems so I could get a > useful X back. /etc/rc.config, and /sbin/init.d are not obvious places to > look. Sure, you're a genius, but normal people want Linux computers, too. /etc/rc.config? /sbin/init.d? what distro is this? As I understand things; anything ending in .d is a directory full of config files (something that should *not* be in /sbin; should be in /etc). /etc/rc.config sounds like a BSD-ism... OpenBSD uses /etc/rc.conf; but it's got a very simple init structure compared to Linux (for better or for worse). the fact that the installer broke your system, is more a comment about the installer, than the naming scheme of the system. :) > Linux uses a 1970s file naming > system but the amount of software has exploded. at least it's ahead of DOS, with its 1960's naming scheme. :) Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700