Greetings! Many thanks for the insites...

> because I can run the same operating system on my
>Sparc, Vax and Intel machines. 

Oh yeh.. This is a seller to me. :)

>and the lack of dependencies on

Yeh! Mandrake was a breeze to install. But after
trying to install a RPM. I had to hunt down 3 other
packages for it to run! shesh... 

> Java, and (for lazy old me) it's more convenient 
> than NetBSD and Linux emulation. 

Oh oh.. I will be working with java. :( looks like a
bump soon. It's ok..

> Freedom of choice is great!

Yeh!! I'm liking NetBSD for server purposes (will be
our home NAT). and Mandrake for desktop (for now).

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