If you're interested in persuing a Red Hat certification, Fedora would be the way to go, though Fedora generally installs alot of packages from the get go. Grabbing the latest Ubuntu release and typing server at the boot prompt will get you a very minimal, but functional, Linux install. I'm assuming that the recently released Ubuntu server is similar, but I haven't had a chance to check it out yet. -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue >0; 0 rows returned