Hi, Well, the installation of the dual W*nd*ws 2000 and CentOS boot worked swell. I have followed the instructions regarding first setting up Win2K on a separate drive, then making that the slave drive, and setting up CentOS on the second drive. After performing the Grub patch, it now works fine! :) I already like CentOS a lot, and I've got most of the important things set-up (i.e. Firefox, Thunderbird, Gaim, Openoffice, webserver software, ...), so I'm almost ready to roll. However... There are a few W*nd*ws programs which I actually like, and for which I'd like to get good Linux alternatives. I hope someone can make some good suggestions for that... In particular, I'm looking for good substitutes for the following W*nd*ws software: - Ultraedit (!!! very important !!!) - vi is cool for terminal stuff, but for programming etc. I prefer Ultraedit (column mode, multiple windows, replace in files, regular expressions, etc.). - Jasc Paint Shop Pro, or Adobe Photoshop - often The Gimp is mentioned, but is it really as powerful? I particularly like PSP (as I think it's more intuitive than PS), but over here at work we also use PS a lot... I fear this may be one of the very few remaining reasons to keep W*nd*ws at all on the 2nd drive...:( - Flash MX (7.20). I fear there is no Linux variant of this one, but I'm asking just in case... Cheers! Olafo