I've realized that my linux port of my engine, should be the Xistence III game engine. For this reason, I've put my efforts into making levels using the new system and scrapping all the old code.

As for my home projects are concerned...

Red Hat 8.0 has been nothing but a perfect distro for me. After the issues with Mandrake 9.0, I was weiry of RH, but in the end it turned out being the more professional distro. The NVidia drivers worked without an issue, and the advanced power management functions didn't have the issues which Mandrake had. All in all, a superb job. Only disapointment is the Mp3 decoder was taken out of XMMS, this was a minor issue which was resolved quickly...