Re: buying a cd writer

I think just about every modern IDE/ATAPI CD-RW works in Linux now, through cdrecord and cdrdao's generic-mmc drivers. Again, always check before buying. Many inexpensive drives available in the USA are remarked Lite-On drives, which work great under Linux. One thing you will have trouble with

Re: missing GTK2 theme in debian

That theme is Redhat's 'Bluecurve', or called 'Wonderland' in non-Redhat distributions. I don't know if there's a Debian package, but you may want to search for the 'Wonderland' engine on http://art.gnome.org/. -- Samat C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but wh