I'm posting this here initially because this suggestion might be a bit naive and I don't specifically want to bother Mandrake if it is; I'd rather bother you folks :P.... I installed 8.0 last night, and as per many suggestions in the past I didn't to an upgrade I just did a full blown re-install of everything but /home.... However, I was thinking, would it be too terrible hard for Mandrake to do an intelligent installation where it would remember the following small list of items when doing an install: - what keyboard you are using - what time zone you are in - what kind of mouse you are using - keep your /etc/hosts file and not have to ask you again - or maybe it would ask you if you would like to retain these settings before continuing. Besides that, 8.0 seems really nice, those pictures during the install were really quite amusing...