Here are a few things that I would like to see from the Linux community as an educator. 1. A strong comittment from the Linux bigboys (SuSe, Redhat, and Xandros (Corel). I think that in order to make inroads into the educational community they are going to have to provide professional development opportunites for the regular classroom teacher. A teacher will use materials provided if they can deliver services to their students in a fast and effecient manner. Our time is very valuable during the school year, we need trained professional service and we don't care if it comes from M$ of Linux. 2. Software: 1. We need applications for our students (I've seen some already). It has to be cosmetically enhanced in order keep the attention of frequent video game players. 3. Teacher utility software. a. Lesson Planners. b. Gradebooks. c. Organizers. A strong comittment to rural schools. Where my mother in-law teachers for the S'kllalam Tribe in Washington State they had about 30 computers donated from a bank. Catch they have no operating system on them. I told her that it would be ideal to put Linux on those computers. They are dealing with M$ and the computers are still sitting. Lance