Not to mention all the engineers in the 21th century who have to have to revert to 18th century measurement "standards" when they try to speak with their US collegues.
Which is really sad since America officially went metric in the early 1970's... 1974 if I remember right, followed a couple years later (1978) by Canada. Oh well <shrug> If I have any vote, I'd say leave all the applications SUSE provides with the A4 defaults. The US and Canada are the only countries in the world (that I know of) who still use the old non-standard papersizes... although, Canada in it's typical schizophrenic way actually uses both ISO and US paper sizes and standards (I can say that since I'm Canadian :-) ) Just as an aside, have any of you actually looked at the design of ISO paper? It's quite elegant and very mathmatical. I love the ratio of the sides of all ISO pages... the height divided by the width is always the square root of 2. There is a good writeup on the path behind ISO sized paper here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html C.