Hello WipeOut, > Most packages for most distro's seem to be compiled for i386.. Obviously > this is for comparibility with older systems but surely this has a > performance implication.. This question has been asked many times on the redhat-list and redhat-install-list, and the answer is that the performance gain by rebuilding all the rpms is usually neglectible. Of course there are exceptions (audio and video come to mind). Bye, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research