Lugheads, Got Debian on the laptop, and I am impressed. I installed a small set from an older Potato CD set, pointed it at Debian site and did the apt-get on a bunch of Woody software. It auto-magically updated and installed all of this in a few hours time with very little attention from me. I know why no one offered to burn me Woody CD's, it's about 7 CD's for the full set of binary pkgs! Debian lists a bunch of sites that will sell the CD's for reasonable cost($24-$40). Someone had source disks on 2 DVD's and cost around $40. I probably don't even need them, given apt-gets abilities. I understand apt-get now can be run on RedHat and can fetch RPM's. While there are a lot of very handy features with the rpm package, I find the central repository that the Debian army maintains to be very handy. In other words, most of the things I want to try out are in the Debian collection. And my experience with apt-get has shown it works great. I don't think that can be said for RedHat and RPM's. RedHat 7.3 is three disks, right? So that means Debian probably has 7/3 more packages on their distro. Also, anything outside of RedHat's three disks is bound to be "questionable" concerning it's interoperability, source and availability(back to RPM hell). I believe I need to start hanging out on some Debian lists to learn more. I'll miss rpm's ability to map files to packages, and packages to files, hopefully there is a way to do this with Debian.