"Earl Brannigan" earl.brannigan@lindenhouse.co.uk writes:

From what I understand then tasks are a part of the apt 'thingie' ? I'll have a little look into tonight.

No, tasks are generally there, not just in apt. apt just makes it very easy to install them.

One more thing... now when I do a shutdown it gets to power down but doesn't. Anyone any idea about this? DeadRat always got this so I never looked into it b4.

It's Debian conservatism again. The APM shutdown code is known to crash some machines, so it's disabled by default. You'll be able to switch it on when you recompile ;-) (Oh, and "make-kpkg" is your new friend for kernel compilation.)

Still got to get X working (nothing fancy in the hardware dept though) and

apt-get install task-x-window-system I think.