Ok, I know this is a linux list and all, but I just installed FreeBSD 4.4, and well... It rocks. I used the mini-iso image, which fits on one of those little 3 inch CDRs. Primarily, I did it for a qmail server. With linux, I was limited to 509 concurrent outgoing connections without patching the kernel, and no patch exists for the 2.4 kernels (at least that I could find). With FreeBSD, I just add -DFD_SETSIZE=65536 to the compile options for qmail, and I'm able to do over 32,000 concurrent outgoing connections, about 60 times more than linux. I don't have it set that high of course, but, the ability is there. And installing software from the ports tree works excellent. I tried downloading apachetoolbox (apachetoolbox.com) and couldn't get it to compile correctly, so I just went into the ports directory into each directory for apache+modssl, mod_php4, and mysql, and did a make/make install in each one. No errors, and it installed everything perfectly. If you haven't tried freebsd, now is a good time to give it a shot. I selected the express install (and then just the development package) on the cd, and then set up networking before I rebooted. My roommate did a regular install and he had problems, but he was probably smoking crack. Jay