Web Developer wrote:

Greetings all,

Here's an article that highlights SUSE Linux in my year without Windows. For those who might be thinking that you just can't run a pure GNU/Linux distribution, you might want to take a peek:

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/47135/index.html

Regards, Don

I ran Linux for several years on the company laptop after permanently removing Win95 when I was given the task of preparing a tools CD to go on RedHat 6 for our users worldwide. However, the finished product and Linux migration never got generally taken up due to Senior management's devil you know attitude, but I was able to fully do my work using Linux with the help of OOo, Citrix client, Cisco VPN client and a host of other neat stuff like using xdm to connect to multiple Solaris partitions on the big boxes. I even have a friend's daughter who is enquiring about installing Linux on her scumware troubled XP box. I installed SuSE on my daughter's box over two years ago and haven't had a single call for it, with Win98 it was a different matter and thruthfully I'm sick of getting asked to help with XP machines, last night I fought a losing battle with Outlook which says it's supplied by Wandoo, I've disabled the modem and dial-up connection in Outlook, but the darn thing still says it wants to dial - they have cable broadband. Any minute now a neighbour will be here for me to look at his XP box and some other people have a printer on XP not working. When I see articles saying Linux is not ready for the desktop and I meet XP sufferers, I then know I'm reading an article by someone with Microsoft only computer knowledge who is writing yet another "until Linux is organised and behaves just like Windows it has no chance" article and that people who are that familiar with Windows will flounder around in Linux as I flounder around in Windows. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks