@BHoggett
In fact I'd say that it's Red Hat who have been stripping lots of good stuff out of their distros.
I'm currently running RH8.0 as my first fully functional Linux setup (have tried other distro's over time, but never got them setup proberly.)
So i'm curios, if mandrake9 is better than RH8. i've gotten used to linux now, so i'm interested in the better distro. even so much that i have considered byolinux.org.
Any pointers i need?