sorry for my enlish, but actually I meant I want to dump Mandrake in favor of Debian (again, tried mdk 8.2 but really went linux with knoppix 3.1)

I fully agree on what you say - imho they should (have) base(d) Mandrake on debian. I know they did consider it...

And well, you say they are too commercial - well, I can handle that, they need some money to pay for the development. but I think they should try to involve the community a bit more, like red hat does with fedora.

yeah, as soon as knoppix comes out with 2.6.x and kde 3.2, I'm goin' for a reinstall of debian.

Pitty it costs alot more work to get some things working... but when they do, you dont have to re-do it.