I have been wondering about Linux and schools the past days. In many news articles about Linux they mention that Linux at first is something for geeks and therefore profoundly used in schools and universities. I can never really agree with this. When I look at my university here in mid-Michigan I got to say nothing is further from the truth. Yes, we have 100 people on the linux mailing list here in the area and there is some Linux servers around and DNS is done on *BSD and we got the campus mail system on AIX but that is as far as it goes. The rest is land of the proprietory systems. I feel disappointed at how Linux has made no inroads in this area. You see all the conferences scheduled, all the major talks and big business deals taking place everyday but you don't ever hear about a Linux company making its way down to campus and approaching the youth. I know there is some hands on tours of SuSE in Germany but nothing similar seems to be happinging in the USA. I have been trying to introduce Linux to friends and people I run across on campus but it is hard work. It is tough to convince somebody of something they never heard off. I even tried to bring Linux closer to the people in my department where I work but have failed so far. We got a mainframe down the hall here as well and I kept sending articles about Linux to people in charge but there was never any replies. There is no way this mainframe will ever run Linux unless a SuSE representative makes his way straight into our offices and explains face to face why Linux is a solution for us. You can barely get our Computer Science professors interested into Linux as they get shoved down their throats any Microsoft product on the market. I see college towns as one of the most condensed living spaces around the US. During regular semesters a campus turns into an ants nest. Shouldn't this be an area Linux companies should target? I like to have personalities like Linus speak at universities around the country. I don't understand why this has not been done. I know I will not make it to any conference anytime soon but I surely would NEVER miss a speech of an open-source affiliate if it happened on campus. Even if it was a select number of schools. I know Linux fans from all over Michigan, maybe Ohio and Indiana would travel to 'U of M' if an event was scheduled there. I sure hope Linux exposure from you on campuses will increase because I feel left alone to fight this fight. mk ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq