Marcus, Thank you for the reply. I am an experienced user. I am a Linux/AIX/Solaris Admin, and even use Linux on my desktop at work. I have not worked with Windows professionally for almost 5 years now. I have used Linux on my home desktop since 1997, and that system has been Debian Testing since 2002. It's not a matter of ability, it is a matter of time. I did build something comparable to Musix with just Debian and Debian packages, but I found the Musix distribution to be smaller and run better than what I built. I don't have time to optimize my Debian system, recompile packages, resolve build errors ... When I go to update Musix 0.31 to 0.3x (sorry for version errors in the previous message), I receive warning messages about things to be deleted. I don't have the list with me right now, but I do remember wanting to keep some of the things to be deleted, which will then have me chasing down new packages with version conflicts . . . Musix is based on Knoppix, but I was wondering if it were possible for the Musix project to isolate the music and audio packages more, and rely less on Knoppix for the dependencies and prerequisite requirements. This way, it may be easier to apt-get or synaptic a specific collection of packages and versions i.e. Musix 0.39. 'apt-get install musix_0.39' would be nice. -=Sean Edwards=- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com