Windows wasn't a choice for non hackers. It was what was _already_ in the box. That's why I (and others, from what I see) remain reluctant to suggest this particular distribution: the quality of its sw, which yes is good, remains irrelevant when the support to _leave_ an environment technically inferior but already known and installed by others, is so bad. Which is precisely why a deal(s) must be made that will ship *nix
On Sunday 20 August 2006 00:12, M. Fioretti wrote: pre-installed fully functional and ready to roll... this is essentially what Apple has done... the new Macs have gone to Intel DuoCore and come preloaded with MacOS X (essentially apple-fied FreeBSD) and whalla--- the apple community is now a *nix community. Novell needs to find another vendor (I hear Lenovo will be shipping SuSE preloaded--laptops?) that will ship SuSE preloaded on desktops. Then, mom&pop can switch to *nix by just purchasing a new computer. I recommend SuSE to new users of Linux... I help them install it, and I answer their questions. You must remember that this list is *just one* venue for support in Linux... and *many* people are becoming SuSE experts... :) Linux is the *most* supported OS around the world today and SuSE is one of the best distros (in my opinion--- well, maybe not 10.1). It is high time, however, to have the distro pre-installed and ready to go... on HPs , Dells, etc. Its time. -- Kind regards, Mark H. Harris <>< harrismh777@earthlink.net