I think this is something like "RC2". It was a bit difficult to download the ISO's, but at the same time I was trying to grab the 9.1 ISO's and they were even harder - lots of sessions ended without a full image. Installation went pretty well, with a couple of exceptions: Lots of KDE components didn't re-install. This appears to be because I got copies of KDE 3.1.9 stuff somewhere, and 9.2 includes 3.1.3. Bad on the installer for removing things before it determined that the newer ones were allready there. I'm not sure of this, because the Manrake extensions to RPM don't seem entirely clear on what's here and what isn't. Running makewhatis did not clear out all of the files that had been deleted, and there may be some inconsistencies in the RPM database. Mandrake's GUI that runs on top of their URPMI tools which is a combination of RPM and RedHat's UP2DATE concept checks on-line sources, and there are the usual problems finding the right directory on the right mirror and finding it up again the next day. The only other problem appears to be with the SMB filesystem. The Samba packages install things like smbmnt2 and smbfs2, and for some reason during the install they did not create symlinks to the old program names, so I could not mount the shares from the NT server until I manually linked /sbin/mount.smb2 to /sbin/mount.smb. Other than that, I do seem to be going through and installing missing packages a lot. This is partly returning to this particular machine after using a laptop version of 9.1 for a while. KMail is still annoying but functional - it will not allow you to turn off the "preview" pane, which marks messages as read. Moving around in the various panes by keyboard is still arcane and inconsistent. The default composer, however highlights misspelled words though, which is nice. KMail will not filter new messages to IMAP folders, but only to local folders. You can still move messages to IMAP folders manually, but you shouldn't have to. If anything else significant comes up, I'll try to make note.