Thanks for the thoughts and advice. I agree about learning to use man pages, and I use them whenever possible, and also look for any installed docs, but I still think a list of common post-installation tasks would be handy. I'm going to do a couple of installs next week and will try to compile a list, or build off of David Martin's Ubuntu how-to. The Debian Wiki is also nice. http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto Thanks again, Rick