I have installed 3 different versions of RedHat, 2 of Mandrake, 1 of Caldera. Linux 7.1 is (IMHO) a disaster. It is somewhere between 50-80% bigger than 7.0 for the same modules. It refuses to upgrade a 1.1 GB 7.0 setup into a 2GB partition. Giving it 3GB and doing a complete install results in an unrecognized 3C509 card, no documentation about the network configuration utility, and a generally non-functional system. What it does do seems to run slower than 7.0. Tomorrow I start on my 2nd week of trying to get this thing to work. (Stick with 7.0 :=(( )