With SuSE 8.0 I cannot imagine why anyone would voluntarily use anything else.
It installs cleanly, recognises everything and is real computing. What would be the point of using anything else in schools.
IMHO installing and hardware detection isn't really relevent. Since installing should only need to be done once and end users, be they students or teaching staff, shouldn't be messing with the way the OS is set up in the first place. Typically you'd set one machine up and clone others with the same or similar hardware. Something Windows requires third party tools to do. Whereas with Linux you need no such tools. One of the things about Windows I think is bad is expecting the, possibly computer illiterate, end user to perform major maintainance tasks. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763