Moin Rolf, Would you care to explain your email? <grin>

SuSE didn't give up PPC at all!

Bush: We are only going to war with an UN mandate!

SLES 8

Suse's least exciting server?

for i/p Series

? (give up)

is PPC and imho

immigration medical health office? intergalactic miniature hockey organization?

at its finest. Unfortunately it is only the server product

I take it that means no applications whatsoever? No development environment, no web browser, no office suite, no utilities, etc.?

and not released yet.

Sorry that I am not in the jargon loop. I very much liked Suse: it seemed well integrated, had everything I needed and - ok, not a valid reason - I liked the look and feel of it. It is my first Linux distribution and the only non-cluster distribution that I know in any detail. However, I don't use it solely as typewriter, game boy or web browser. The people in my field don't develop for 5 year old distributions/kernels. Computers are an integral part of my work, but not everything. Switching distributions or personalizing a server environment might be a snip for you, but it is quite a pain for me. I would rather stay with the Suse distribution and update when I change jobs later this year. I guess, that is not going to happen. Debian certainly sounds like the hot ticket in town right now, but I also heard that it is not necessarily for the faint at heart. It's a pity to hear that Suse is going big business and is dropping those time-intense and expensive fringes. Would I go back to Suse when I got to set up my first server/cluster in the future? Don't know. Best wishes from freezing cold Chicago, Jutta PS: There is an acronym that I always wanted to know: What does SuSE stand for? Super Unterfranken sind einmalig!