Hi since redhat > has done that to us at least twice and more if you count giving up support > for things like mp3, I do not see the risk from third part repositories being > any bigger than relying on redhat in particular on the fedora core system. Redhat being a US based distro, there is no way it could have continued supporting mp3 stuff. users dont have a problem with using it. you just cannot *distribute* it. if you cant stick with RHEL due to price centos(centos.org) might be a valid alternative... -- Regards, Rahul Sundaram