Because despite its difficulties, even Linux is easier to deal with than Microsoft's ever-changing licensing legislation! Anyway, the computing industry seems obsessed with how many strings your bow has got, and even the most stick-in-the-mud IT manager has read about Linux at some time or another, and the promise of something for 'free' (especially working in schools) is too much to resist. Martin Dart

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So if you're so good at implementing Win2k and the like, why are you bothering with Linux?

If I were a reviewer evaluating the product, I would have little choice but to slate it, and advise people to choose Microsoft products - I've installed 1 server & 2 workstations with Win2K, implemented a domain, set up

Geoff printers,

and connected to the internet in the same time period that Linux has done little more than frustrate and annoy me.

But I will persevere, as I am nothing else if not inquisitive and resilient! It does seem to me however that the Linux community suffers from an overdose of that sorry old computing tale - assuming that everyone else in the world knows as much as you, and despising them if they do not!

Regards,

Martin.