Hi I have been lurking for some time. I retired from the federal government several years ago and currently work for the local county schools here in Middlesex County, VA as a part time computer tech. I have 20+ years experience in unix like operating systems. We have been replacing NT machines with Linux based systems in as many places as we can. One of our NT machines was hit by script kiddies which is one reason we have switched to Linux. Linux has been a great for us. I used one machine to allow NovaNet to work thorough our firewall by port forwarding. Our tech repair request database is running on php and mysql. Staff can request a repair from any browser in the school system and we can update the database after the repair from any browser in the system. Other Linux machines server as DHCP and proxy servers and firewalls. As you can see we have only used Linux for server type applications. Thus the reason that I have been lurking here to see if there is any educational developments on the Linux platforms ...Bob bob@skyeweb.com