* Filipe Joel de Almeida (filipe.joel@netcabo.pt) [030612 15:07]: ->Thank you all for your comments. I have placed a post like this one in some ->RH lists, and I got no useful answer. -> ->Patrick, thankfully I have nobody telling me what to do (one of the good ->things in being my own boss), so the reason I posted this question was ->basically to be sure I wasn't doing a wrong choice. -> ->I plan on starting to use Linux as my desktop system and then starting to ->use it as a Server to see how can it replace our clients servers. The ->biggest problem on moving from Windows to Linux is that most clients are ->small companies with only one server, and almost all of them have some ->windows apps that need to run on the server, so the server has to be windows ->:( -> ->As a newbie that I am, I'll need some support in the beginning, and this ->list is much more "user-friendly" than the red hat ones. Comparing all the ->comments I got from the lists, I decided that SUSE was definitely the best ->system to start with, so I already ordered it from amazon together with 2 ->books, "SUSE Linux Network" and "SuSE Linux Server". -> ->Any of you guys has any other suggestions about good literature that I ->should read after I finish up these ones? I'm quite fond of these two books. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/offering/list/-/0130206016/new/r... UNIX System Administration Handbook http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0130084662/qid=1055456773/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/103-6978333-3764618?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Linux System Administration Handbook The Linux handbook specifically covers SuSE as well as RH an Debian. As well as O'Reilly's Essential System Admin book. With these three books you should get a pretty good handle on Linux/Unix ism's as they often overlap. The other thing I recommend is just staying part of this list. It can get a bit noisy at times but a lot of good info passes through here. -- The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction. ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org