Good morning all. I am Martin Devon, the IT Consultant at Stonar School in Wiltshire. (For the above, read, I am Head of IT, but in order to be able to take an independent line I am not prepared to be an employee as such). At the moment we use Linux <SMALL> but it is not SuSE at the moment </SMALL> on a Dell 2400 server, specifically for the Navaho Internet Suite, which provides all our Web/Proxy/Webmail services and is highly reliable. I am vehemently anti-PC in education, believing that the proliferation of Windows and Office in particular in the last 2 or 3 years has led to a increase in flashy presentations but a parallel loss both of precision and understanding of the principles, contrary to the intentions of the examination boards. (That may perhaps start some discussion :) We have a switched fibre-optic network of 90-odd StrongArm RiscPCs which do absolutely everything (including all the school admin) and are provided on a basis of about 1:4 in this boarding/day school of about 350 girls. It is very successful with some 63,000 coursework files on the net as I write. Here lies our one weakness: although at least as good as other places' NT servers in terms of stability etc, the RiscPC based servers are limited in their network throughput. My expectation of Linux is that we shall be able to run a fast dedicated server of the highest reliability - quite a consideration in a 24/7/365 organisation. Regards to all -- Martin