> a full Mandrake 7.2 is 2.6Gb? Are you kidding? That would have to make it > the undisputed king of open source bloatware. Wow - and some of you rag on > RH. A big linux instalation isn't the definition of bloatware. They would have to be putting 200meg word processors on the system to qualify for that. It's just that they included a lot of extra software that most of the other distros aren't including yet, and to me thats very much appreciated. Besides, i think that Suse would have to be the undisputed king of the lasrge distros... what are they up to now, something like 8 cd's or one DVD? I never did like installing Suse, just because it was information overload when picking stuff to install. Extra is good, but haveing every program in the word available on install is kinda ridicules. I would be a bigger fan of just having them be post install extras. Brian Cluff