I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, and pull many packages from the server, each time? Is there a (n easy) way to use a local cache? Once up and running, how often should I update? Every night? Richard -- Art is not a reproducible result. Creativity is a profoundly subjective act.