Brian Kelsay wrote: > Stage Two in progress. > The use flags mostly influence things installed after stage 3 but some things, like NLS, are important to have in there at the very beginning. I would actually not worry too much about ufed until you're at stage 3 (sorry! i though you were using the prebuilt pentium 2 iso). Ufed saves you allot of time when compiling things that need to have certain flags turned on or off. Oh, BTW, DON'T install Mozilla with GTK2 support. Otherwise, leave GTK2 support turned on. Also, don't emerge realone. Realplayer 8 is the only one that has a working plugin. There is a plugin in the gentoo forums to use mplayer to play windows media, quicktime, and real formats all from within mozilla. The ebuild isn't in the portage tree yet. Some things I've discovered: I was a diehard Gnome 2 fan until I decided to give KDE-3.1_rc 5 another chance. I LOVE KDE 3.1. I use Kate for writting C++, HTML, and CSS. Konqueror's built in support for FTP is excellent. (Because Kate use's the file manager widgets to perform file opperations, you can actually open a file right off of a WebDAV or FTP connection and save it back when you're finished editing.) KOffice kicks ass. The KDM login could use some prettification. Use the Keramik theme by default and install Geramik for GTK for a pretty Mozilla 1.2.1 that matches KDE. Here's a screen shot: Some cool things to look forward to: XFree86 4.3 has custom hardware alpha cursors and R&R extensions added in. KDE 3.1 has implemented the ability to change resolutions from their control panel and activate a 'glass' mouse cursor by default if it detects 4.3. Full hardware alpha support (accelerated transparency! yay!) is slated for 4.4 and KDE already has support for it via the XRender extension emulated transparent menus option. -- Jason Clinton I don't believe in witty sigs.