Hi, I tried installing recently released 2.8 rc but ran into issues with kernel panics and not able to boot into the system. Eventually i decided to use 2.7.1 and everything works perfectly fine so far w.r.t installation, login etc. However i've few questions that i'm looking for some help on and it would be great if anyone can guide me in resolving those - 1. I got openbox installed but wanted to install xfce actually. I added xfce in the same way as xorg, core in prt-get.conf but it didn't update the xfce collection. As per http://crux.nu/portdb/ I could see xfce repo there but not sure why it didn't work. I even tried command line consulting the man page/online docs but those didn't work as well. Not sure where i'm going wrong. 2. I've an external monitor that got detected automatically in an Arch install in another partition. I had xfce there and there's a Display option which detects the new monitor where i can choose the appropriate resolution. However i couldn't see anything similar in openbox so i've a default resolution which doesn't work too well. Any way to select my new monitor? While compiling the kernel i seem to have compiled external device support natively so hoped to use the monitor. 3. Can i upgrade to 2.8 from my existing 2.7.1 installation? If so, can you please let me know the steps for that or should i wait until RC goes gold thereby all existing issues can be fixed? Thanks in advance. -Murali.