Devs, As mentioned earlier, after my HD tanked, I did my first Gnome only install using the Arch 2010-05 install media. Except for my FU forgetting mkswap, the install is picture perfect. Further, since the radeon/dri/mesa modules are mature enough that they handle gpu downclocking during idle clock ticks, there is no further reason to hang onto the fglrx driver and limp suse 11.0 along on my laptops. Gnome 2.30 is near perfect, the packaging is, from what I can tell so far, perfect, and a simple 'rsync -au otherbox:/var/cache/pacman/pkg /var/cache/pacman' seals the deal. Great Job Devs. That brings my total Arch installs to 7, including my 2 primary servers. Arch has nailed what a distro should be and that's something worth jealously guarding against the pressures of change ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com