TrakerJon

It ships with support for nVidia cards unlike Red Hat.

Almost forgot... You can find the Macromedia Flash 6 plug-in at (the Netscape plug-in link doesn't work...it requires flash ;( ) http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ RealPlayer 8.0 at: http://proforma.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html?src=downloadr,000814rpchoice_c1 Sun's j2re-1_4_1_03-linux-i586-rpm.bin at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html (RH doesn't seem to like Sun's Java J2re plug-in) Gtk-Gnutella can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4467 The current version of AIM is at: http://www.aim.com/get_aim/linux/latest_linux.adp Reminder note: Mandrake 9.1 easily converts most MS True Type fonts for use with OpenOffice documents that can then be easily saved in alternative formats for those inferior Microsoft Office users

Well, this newbie is throughly impressed to say the least. The latest releases of OpenOffice and Mozilla are a nice touch. The hardware recognition on my desktop and laptop were flawless. Installed Wine, Sun Java JRE 1.4.1, Macromedia Flash and RealPlayer without issue. Converts MS fonts like a champ. The only gripe I have is Menudrake still hoses up the menu a bit when you add things at random. Overall I give it an A- and would recommend it to most anyone.

I have a Realtec 8139 NIC that works fine with RedHat 7.3. It detects my cable connection with dhcp enabled without issue. When I upgraded to 8.0 the NIC will no longer activate. I've used lokkit and the network security tool to reset the iptables and verified settings, enabled dhcp at startup along with the auto dectect option without success? I've reinstalled the NIC, even manually configured dns entries. I went back to 7.3 and again no issues? Someone please help this newby out of the woods! hahaha :x

Well, out of confusion and discust I gave up on Red Hat 8.0's ability to make firewall config tools user friendly. Mandrake 9.0's gui tools rock and I had absolutely no problem with NIC detection or dhcp recognition. Sorry Red Hat...looks like the French have got you beat on this release.

Is it the ipchains? Can someone give me a standard ipchain config for use with dhcp enabled (cable modem)?