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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:19:35 -0400, Allan Adler

Well, part of your problem has been the commercialization of RH. They stopped supporting and upgrading your free version, in the hopes that you would buy their commercial version. That alone is enough for me to never consider them. Certainly you don't have to replace your computer, but you might consider replacing your distribution.

I have been happily using debian for years now. Updating is usually a sequence of two commands

apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade

and a bit of a wait (OK, maybe an hour) for it to do what it is going to do. Debian is configurable so that you can run it on almost any machine, old or new.

Certainly there will be a few headaches involved in adapting to a new system, but it might well be worth it. I do consider claims that "just about every package you have installed" are suspect to be nonsense, but you certainly would not want to run a telnet or ftp service from that distribution.

BTW, Alan, your initial query about gnome-panel prompted me to take a look at it, and I like it a lot. I even switched from my ancient mwm to gnome. Thanks.

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