Well it appears that Connectiva 6.0 is now out and "Conectiva is a Linux distribution with full support for apt-get with RPMs." So it looks like apt is achieving cross-distribution success too now. Anyone on large bandwidth care to check it out: ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/ http://www.conectiva.com.br/download/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ ftp site, mirror listing and changlog, respecitively. Anand -- Linux.Conf.Au -- http://linux.conf.au/ 17th - 20th January, -- Alan Cox, David Miller, Sydney, Australia -- Tridge, maddog and you? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug