It seems that at last with 8.0 I am slowly winning the battle to escape Windows, at least on the home front. At home my computer has been running SuSE 8.0 for more than a week and I am getting more apps installed and working. With Netscape, OpenOffice, VNC and a few messenger programs, I am getting most everything I need to finally be free of MS. A few days ago something rather funny happened. My 22 month old son found the power switch on the PC and pushed it, probably many times. He rendered the PC unbootable with just lots of 01's on the screen. I found that the bios had been messed up so it didn't recognize the hard drives. I fixed that and the PC was able to boot again with SuSE but I found that the Windows XP installation didn't survive. It was another reason SuSE is better than MS. On the work side, the Linux fight isn't going so well. My computer which is dual boot with Windows 95 and SuSE 8.0 is beginning to fail. My boss told me to put in an order for a new PC. I did that and specified SuSE 8.1. Management didn't say much about the dual Xeon 2.2 GHz processors but they said I will probably not get Linux. I was given a load of @#$%$# about how no one else in the company is going that way, Linux isn't supported, blah blah. With my recent experiences I am more convinced than ever that Linux is the way to go but the fight is going to be difficult here. Has anyone else in this list had this experience? Have you been able to win the fight? Any suggestions for me? Damon Register