That is all very well, but e-smith does suffer from problems when it comes to more unusual configuration. The problem that I find myself most annoyed by is the lack of hardware control in the e-smith manager (something that other web interfaces have some luck with). Device control is a major hole in Linux when compared to NT (although Linux still beats the latter hands down!), and some basic configuration -- especially of NICs -- as is found in LinuxConf would be appreciated in the future.I must admit that hand editing of configuration files to give my external DHCP server the @Home domain name when requesting a logon has never appealed to me.