Hi All, I've read many of your messages on this mailing list about peoples opinions on the latest SuSE Linux Profession 8.2 distribution and decided to share with all of you some of my thoughts on this topic. I've been using it for about a week now and have no major complaints thus far. Installation was a breeze on my home pc except for my scanner/printer. I have a epson printer which supports both USB and parallel port connections. The scanner won't work unless I hook it up through a printer device to the parallel port on my pc. It is a no name scanner which came with a single TWAIN driver floppy disk. Needless to say it does work pretty well on Windows XP Home. But no luck with SuSE. When my printer was hooked up through the scanner it too failed to work in SuSE environment. When I plugged it in to the USB port YaST 2 picked it up and I was up and printing in no time. I got the full version of 8.2, and so asked the folks at SuSE if they could help out with the scanner/printer configuration. The funny thing is I sent this request from YaST2 and they had a topic there for printers. I didn't get a response until 4 days later. The response said that printers were not covered with installation support. I was pretty disappointed by this. Why have "printers" as a choice when filling out the support request in YaST2 if it is not supported??? KDE 3.1 truly rocks overall but I found a glitch in the X server shipped with SuSE 8.2. When leaving my machine on but idle for a few hours my viewing area becomes "smaller" and I have to log out and then back in to recover it. I am using a Sony SDM-S71 LCD monitor. Anyway I thought it might have been a problem with KDE so I logged out and then logged into the gnome environment. I have not left since. I still have issues with the viewing area but it seems to have corrected itself when I came home today all by itself. Visiting the http://www.yesnetwork.com web site caused both Galean and Mozilla browsers to crash with a segmentation fault. Can anyone on this list please try to visit this site on their SuSE boxes and tell me if it crashes for them too? Finally, even though I selected all the major categories for software selection in YaST during the installation, it failed to install my favorite text editor; gvim. Vim was indeed installed but I had to manually find and install it from YaST2 after installation. I like the new YOU feature during installation so I can grab those patches before I even boot into SuSE for the first time. ~~Nick _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!