<P>Just wanted to drop a quick note to say thank you to Peter and Bob (& JJ?), you guys have the skills and I don't know if you could tell but we are in awe....</P>
<P>The 8.2 Mandrake was pretty detailed...It's easy to see how you could survive "on the outside" of the Microsoft world with Linux. It's not your grandpa's character based OS anymore! </P>
<P>One question (OK I lied there are a few in here) - If you start loading a distribution (Mandrake, RH, Debian...) are you "stuck" continuing down that path? What I mean to say is, after messing around for several weeks with my Alpha I finally have it to a # prompt - How do I get it to the fancy/sexy GUI you guys were showing? (and all the other tools). The RH I have has tools etc. but I can't get it to load, the Debian loaded but since I burned the disks froma download I'm sure I'm missing something...Is it possible to mix and match packages and "add on's" from distribution to distribution - kind of a roll your own approach?</P>
<P>Several of us are ultra newbies so we will need a "by the numbers cook book" approach until we can at least trot with the big dogs.</P>
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