[snip]
>I like the idea of installing everything.
[snip]
So do I. When I install SuSE I use the 'almost everything' option, or at least I did until they took it out in SuSSE 8.0.
BTW, I downloaded and installed the Mandrake 8.2 ISO img (three of them) on my PC at work. I would put Mandrake 8.2 at the same version level as SuSE 7.3.
Mandrake 8.2 is an EXCELLENT distro. I especially like their control center and install utility. If Authur installed KDE or GNOME he can use the graphical front end to RPM and start wacking away. I"d never do it though. I have two 30 GB hds and have installed everthing including the kitchen sink. I have about 90% of it still free.
>
>If you decide to whittle down your install, I recommend using an rpm GUI manager, if you version of Linux has one. On RedHat it is, just a minute and let me check, /usr/bin/gnorpm.

In KDE it is kpackage. Or one can use xrpm.
JLK