I am enormously making use of this discussion group and its feedback. I only started learning Linux in December 1997. I tried Debian, Caldera and then Red Hat. I thought Red Hat was the best distribution compared with the other two I tried. With Red Hat I had finally a Linux machine working, but my productivity was CERO in my daily work, because I did not have the sufficient knowledge / experience with Linux & the X Window System yet . I switched to SuSE initially only for one reason. It had the XNvidia driver to make use of my STB Velocity 128 videocard. The good thing about SuSE is that a lot of work is 'automated' for beginners.:With YaST, with SuSEconfig and other little things, which makes you start working! Having SuSE Linux 5.1 and this discussion group, I managed meanwhile to get my internet connection working ( installing ezppp), I recompiled my kernel to include PPP and sound capabilities for my exotic sound card. I even modified my lilo.conf with EMACs when my lilo booted to linux irrespective of my "dos" typing. ( I still need DOS , for the time being, for some software related to my shipping work). The issue here is, from my point of view, that SuSE managed to offer a Linux distribution which helps to make the first steps into being productive under this operational platform. It is not enough to hate everything Microsoft does to switch to Linux. You need, as a starter, an environment which gives you a hand to overcome this huge wall which is sometimes Linux. Ok there are some problems, but this bugs should be corrected by receiving the updates with a subscription. As a matter of fact, have a look at the webside of Red Hat and check the "erratas" of their RedHat 5.0 version. Is a long list! SuSE well done and keep on the good work.! Mit freundlichen Gruessen. Mario Jose Medjeral // Singapore seamar@singnet.com.sg -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e