Hello to all, I'm a Toronto linux dev guy and have been lurking on this email reflector a while, this is the first thing I thought I have thats possibly meaningful to contribute. If you never heard of the "Boost library" that's odd as its pretty self promotional, and is also very high in quality. About it: http://www.boost.org/users/index.html A lot of whats in it is test bed-ish to go into next official c++ versions. I have a commercial SBC for telecom that uses it. When moving up a version, its occurred to me after days of grueling effort, the install instructions are pretty wacky, that is, the process itself is fine, but the instructions are 2 years old and the particular mistakes ( mostly of omission ) make it hard to get results. Im making a LaTeX PDF of the misadventure and more importantly, its fixes. So if you are a BOOST success story, stuck or whatever, ask and I will post it someplace, etc. Maybe, maybe an actual f2f talk on it, if theres a lot of folks trying to figure out how to wedge it into ( your ? ) projects. Look at all the fancy stuff in there ! Look at this list of really high quality source code: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/ You can save months of labor and get pretested stuff, but you know, you have to 'get' how to make it hop to your wishes, and its a little bit messy in reality.... Regards, Dan Kolis my ref: boost, gtalug