"I agree with the article, except the distro thing. All in all it is irrelavent providing one thing -- packages can be found easily and updated as easily. So in theory (theory, mind you), a person could do what the article says, using Gentoo (remember now, this is theory) with a nice manager for pulling in prebuilt ebuilds and come stock with the apps aforementioned in the article, and it should not matter that its not Debian, or Ubuntu. But thats really the only gripe I got -- that the base actually mattered. Although I prefer Thunderbird over Evolution, that is not to imply that Evolution sucks in any way. I just like the plugins that Mozilla products can take advantage of. If Evo could do the same I probably would migrate back to Evo in a heartbeat." - Andrew Schott